The Yellow Envelope Quotes

“My life was wailing like a beautiful prayer, the moments stretching into hours, the days to years. I could see now that it was possible to live a long life poorly, or a short life well, and that at any moment one might shift their position and, after years of hibernation, decide to crawl out of the den and live.”
― Kim Dinan, The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and a Life-Changing Journey Around the World

“That was the irony of travel. The bigger the distance between you and the familiar grew, the smaller and safer and friendlier the world felt.”
― Kim Dinan, The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-Changing Journey Around the World

“The world had come to my aid and shown me that I could be so much more if I let my guard down and revealed myself.”
― Kim Dinan, The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-Changing Journey Around the World

“At the end of the day, the money itself is just paper. What gives the whole experience meaning are the thoughts, emotions, and feelings that come with giving the money away in ways that make you smile and make your heart sing.”
― Kim Dinan, The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and a Life-Changing Journey Around the World

“In Japanese culture there is an art of fixing broken pottery with gold or silver lacquer. The lacquer highlights the pottery’s flaw as a celebrated part of its history. Because the piece has been salvaged and repaired, pulled back from the edge of destruction, it is considered even more beautiful for having been broken. We’d been broken. And then we’d been pieced back together. The turmoil had been meaningful because now there was gold where the cracks used to be.”
― Kim Dinan, The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-Changing Journey Around the World

“Everything changed for me when I realized that the only person I could control was myself. I can’t control what people do, only how I respond to what people do. You have the same choice.”
― Kim Dinan, The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-Changing Journey Around the World

“Of course, I knew there were plenty of good reasons to stay. But I’d spent my entire life staying. I wanted to be the kind of woman bold enough to go.”
― Kim Dinan, The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-Changing Journey Around the World

“That was the irony of travel. The bigger the distance between you and the familiar grew, the smaller and safer and friendlier the world felt.”
― Kim Dinan, The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and a Life-Changing Journey Around the World

“I’d lived a lot of years walking down the wrong roads, and those days had compacted like the folds of an accordion, into an inch of time. Now everything expanded. My life was wailing like a beautiful prayer, the moments stretching into hours, the days to years. I could see now that it was possible to live a long life poorly, or a short life well, and that at any moment one might shift their position and, after years of hibernation, decide to crawl out of the den and live.”
― Kim Dinan, The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-Changing Journey Around the World

“My first advice is to take a minute and either with Brian or by yourself truly identify those reasons that you two are no longer made for each other. Identify tangible reasons you do not want to be with him. You will need those when you miss him. Then think about what, where, and who you want to be in the future. Make sure you know these things so that when you feel weak you can brace yourself with the hope of the future and the happiness that lies ahead. Going back to these things in breakups has always helped me.”
― Kim Dinan, The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-Changing Journey Around the World