The only way you can tell how far you’ve come is to know where you started.
So what if we would have forfeited money on a vacation? In the grand scheme of things, losing dollars is nothing compared to losing time.
The whole panorama makes me realize how small I am, in the grand scheme of things. How insignificant my problems are when you zoom out and out and out and see the whole of the world.
The Bible promises a land of milk and honey. The Koran says paradise has rivers of honey for those who guard against evil. Krishna, the Hindu deity, is often shown with a blue bee on his forehead. The bee itself is considered a symbol of Christ: the sting of justice and the mercy of honey, side by side.
She lashed out because when you hurt someone else, you’re less likely to feel your own pain.
But gender isn’t simple, much as some might want it to be. The fact that it’s complicated – that there’s a whole spectrum of ways of being in the world – is what makes it a blessing.
We are battered and broken, but we’re all small miracles.
I feel like I’ve been starving for decades and he’s a feast.
The problem is that anchors don’t just keep you from floating away. Sometimes, they drag you down.
Isolation, I think, is the worst thing in the world.
Dark honey from the second harvest. It’s made late in the season after the nectar drought at the end of July when the bees turn to goldenrod and sunflowers instead. It’s deeper and richer, it tastes like secrets.
I hate that you didn’t trust me enough to tell me the truth.
Me, I like him because of one of Rocco’s other things: he doesn’t look people in the eye. He says that’s how someone can steal your soul.
It’s an odd luxury, knowing someone’s got my back.
I had come to see a beautiful liberation in this new way of thinking – which was, ironically, not having to think for myself.
Do you owe someone only the care they provided for you? Or does believing that make you as culpable as they were?
I don’t believe in God but sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other and to thrive in spite of the odds.
Happiness wasn’t just what you reported; it was also how you chose to remember.
This has always been my favorite fact about bees: in their world, destiny is fluid. You might start life as a worker, and end up a queen.
I take my paycheck in sunsets.