“I’m sure not afraid of success. And I’ve learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I’m afraid of now is of being someone I don’t like much.”

“Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They’re its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.”

“A finished person is a boring person.”

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”

“Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tries to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.”

“Turn of your cell phone. Turn off your regular phone, for that matter. Keep still. Be present.”

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