“Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, Just let go, Just be.” WorldKindLongMomentsWalksBlessingLetting GoHotCurseAssumptionBe KindScreamLive In The MomentBathsIndulgeIndulge InCount Your BlessingsJust Let GoLong WalksHot BathsBe Kind To Yourself Author:Carol Shields
“I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.” WorldGivingFirstsKindChildrenHas BeensMotherGrowthPersonalityUniqueWindowWitnessMy ChildrenNovelistsComponentsBeing A Mother Author:Carol Shields
“In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.” WayFeelsKindFallMy OwnSimplePowerfulMorningOne DayGlassesStormFree WillVeinsAlteredHeroinAxiomsPumpsPredestinationFalling AsleepExegesis Author:Carol Shields
“We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.” KnowsWantKindHandsAsksKnowingWillingReachingReach OutNot KnowingUnwillingGrasping Book:Dressing Up for the Carnival Source: Dressing Up for the Carnival
