Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. – Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420
I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. РBetsy Ca̱as Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. – Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. – Voltaire
