"And one of the powers of mindfulness is the ability to get to that frame of mind on demand."

“The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

“If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you.”

“I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other. It is only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever; a writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories.”

“If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.”

“Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.”

“She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.”

“Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.”

Source : Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)