A thought for 2026:

“One may say that true life begins where the tiny bit begins—where what seem to us minute and infinitesimally small changes occur. True life is not lived where great external changes take place—where people move about, clash, fight, and slay one another—it is lived only where these tiny, tiny, infinitesimally small changes occur.” 

Leo Tolstoy, from “Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves?” in Recollections and Essays