Erixtuff

“When you complain you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”

“Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn’t live.”

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear”

UPDATE: HE FOUND A TINY FRIEND

“You cannot always be happy but you can always be brave. And that is the beginning of everything.”

My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:

My ancestors being like:

My ancestors, watching me use a food processor to grind pre-roasted and peeled chestnuts for chestnut soup rather than roasted them in hot coals before grinding them in a mortar and pestle -all day long-