#tide

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides. ↗

— Matthew Norman

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#leaders #leadership #politician #politics #ship

In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15). ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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#dark #high #joy #kingsolver #life