Nothing Much Happens Quotes

“That was the lovely thing about all those books on the shelf; they didn’t have to add to up to anything. They were just for me, for the pleasure of filling up, and written only for their own sake.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“I’d finished college long ago but often thought that if I could go back to those days and bring with me the curiosity and focus that had bloomed in me in the years since, I’d enjoy it so much more.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“Meditation is simply paying attention in a calm way.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Calming stories to soothe your mind and help you sleep

“When dogs are happy, their instinct is to share it. For me this is proof enough that the universe bends toward kindness.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“...and thought I'd keep taking my cues from Mother Nature, who hadn't yet made up her mind but was creating all the same.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“You can only read a great book for the first time once,”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“I thought of what I’d learned from my friend’s example, the importance of keeping yourself supplied with the small pleasures that made your days a bit sweeter:”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“I remembered that in Italian, a love affair was sometimes described as a story made with someone, and I thought that I had been lucky. All the stories I’d made had made me a little better, a little wiser, a little more understanding and never less openhearted.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“I opened my book and thought about a word from the Zulu language, a word that is hard to define in English but encompasses the ideas of shared humanity and compassion, the idea that I am because we are.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“Ubuntu,” I wrote. “You can’t be human all by yourself.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“I’m someone who believes that simple chores like cooking and cleaning can be quite enjoyable if you do them right. Light a candle, pour a drink, turn on some music or an old favorite movie, and enjoy the process of taking a task from start to finish in a calm, deliberate way.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“Children have this power, to look at something simple and everyday and imagine the wondrous.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“I reminded myself that we all have the earth in common.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“Sleeping is a modern superpower. Stories are old magic.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“I thought that spring in Italian was primavera, a combination of words meaning 'first' and 'real'. Yes, the year was a few months old by now but the spring was the first real moment of the year.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“You can't be human all by yourself.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

“I guess it's a mark of growing older that I don't mind so much now knowing that these vibrant and seemingly real scraps of memory are very likely fiction. When I was young, they seemed proof of something extraordinary and magical that existed in the world and I fiercely wanted them to be real, but now ordinary things seemed more magical to me than fantasies of flying or discovering long-forgotten treasure.”
― Kathryn Nicolai, Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep