Whatever your eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we … Continue reading Quote for Today: Mary Rose O’Reilley
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Quote for Today: Diane Ackerman
At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able to answer that question. A sleeper can be decoyed out of bed by the sheer beauty of dawn on the open seas. Part of my job, as I see it, is to allow that to happen. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Diane Ackerman
Quote for Today: Alice Walker
You think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing. --Alice Walker Image: Sorrowing Old Man, Vincent van Gogh, 1890
Quote for Today: William Faulkner
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him … Continue reading Quote for Today: William Faulkner
Quote for Today: Czeslaw Milosz
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will. ― Czeslaw Milosz Image: The Double Secret, René Magritte, 1927
Quote for Today: Avina Celeste
Your true self is enough. There is no need to be better than everyone else around you to be happy. True happiness comes when you are in harmony with yourself and no longer feel the need to one-up other people. ―Avina Celeste Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Isobelle Carmody
The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope … Continue reading Quote for Today: Isobelle Carmody
