Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

people will always yearn for a simple solution to their complicated problems. It’s a lot easier to have faith in something you can’t see, can’t touch, can’t explain, and can’t change, rather than to have faith in something you actually can.” She sighed. “One’s self, I mean.”

When one is raised on a steady diet of sorrow, it’s hard to imagine that others might have had an even larger serving.

“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun,” a quote from Marcus Aurelius,