The Small Cottage A place to stay quiet, a place to hold in hands a cup of hot chocolate, a place to sit by the window and smile at the world

“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

“Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers.”

“I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”

“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”