The Cat Who Taught Zen: A Beautifully Illustrated Exploration of Self-Discovery

It is better to begin the journey, make some mistakes and correct your course, than to wait until everything is perfect and never even start

What we want is seldom what we need. And what we need is almost never what we want.

Wherever we go, we are our own companion. And that is why we must try to be a good friend to ourselves and treat ourselves with gentleness. After all, we are the one we spend the most time with.

If you could take one thing away from this book, I would ask you to try and remember that good things often come out of seemingly bad things

If something isn’t right, just telling your friend can make it seem better, even though they might not know how to fix it.

Many of us feel hesitant to start something new and tend to wait until the time is right… but I have learned to give myself permission to start messily with no expectation and somehow, each time, things just seem to work themselves out.

I once heard someone say, it was not the journey or the destination that mattered most, but the company.