"You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life . . . Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul."
In this book, bestselling novelist Anna Quindlen reflects on what it takes to live each day deeply, not to waste what we have within and around us but "to get a life", to learn to "love the journey, not the destination".
Quindlen makes no claim to hold any special qualification, no unique gift, but rather she writes with insight and understanding on what it means to fully engage in our days, not to take what we have for granted but to learn to take notice.
"Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in the spring: look at the full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realise that life is glorious . . ."
