"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store. A cat nap in your office chair. Or two cups of good, hot black coffee."
–– David Lynch (1946-2025), American filmmaker, visual artist, musician and actor
Source: F.B.I Special Agent Dale Cooper (played by Kyle MacLachlan), Twin Peaks.
via: Sketchbook K 11, 2024, p. 44.
"Every time a gift is given it is enlivened and regenerated through the new spiritual life it engenders both in the giver and in the recipient."
–– Margaret Atwood (b. 1939), Canadian writer, environmental activist and inventor
Source: Robin Wall-Kimmerer. The Serviceberry. New York: Scribner, 2024; p. 50.
"The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world."
–– Krista Tippett (b. 1960), American journalist, author, and entrepreneur
via: Commonplace Book 2024, p. 17.
"They had offered him comfort and shelter, even when he was afraid of taking them, and in accepting he had learned something new. It was as much a gift to receive as it was to give, requiring as it did both courage and humility."
–– Rachel Joyce (b. 1962), British writer
Source: Rachel Joyce. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Canada: Bond Street Books (Random House Canada), 2012; p. 201.
via: Commonplace Book, 2013-2014, 2014, p. 96.
