"You  can  boil your life down to a single suitcase, if you

desperately have to. Ask yourself what you really need,

and  it  won't be what you imagine-- you will easily toss

aside  unfinished   work,   and   bills,   and    your   daily

calendar to make room for the pair of flannel pajamas

you wear when it rains; and the stone your child gave

you  that  is  shaped  like  a  heart;  and   the   battered

paperback you revisit every April, because it was what

you were reading the first time you fell in love. It turns

out that what's important is not everything that you've

accumulated all these years, but those few things you 

can carry with you." ~ Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult