“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Like you I believe in a higher power, but, unlike yours, mine is not a kind fatherly one. It is Nature, who with all its forces, beauties and necessary evils, rules our destinies according to its own irrevocable laws.
Olga jacoby
“Annie is making us a visit and is as blithe a bride as one need wish to see. The world is composed of John and John is composed of all the virtues ever known, which amiable delusion I admire and wonder at from the darkness of my benighted spinsterhood. Abby lives for her crayons and dancing, father for his garden, mother for the world in general and I for my pens and ink.”
louisa may Alcott
“My but I loved the farm, I saw there are just three things in life: animal, vegetable and mineral. They are all found in the country.”
from new Burlington by john baskin
“Ascetic solitude is difficult. You withdraw from the world to get a clearer glimpse of who you are, what you are doing, and where life is taking you. The people who do this in a very committed way are the contemplatives.”
From Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
by John O’Donohue
“You should never belong fully to something that is outside yourself.”
From Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
by John O’Donohue
“Work can be an attractive way of sinning deeply against the wildness and creativity of your own soul.”
From Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
by John O’Donohue
“Work comes to dominate your identity.”
From Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
by John O’Donohue
“The soul desires expression.”
From Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
by John O’Donohue
“Gentle, nonconfrontational questions that pursue the truth, as you see it, can prevent a person from taking overall power in a situation.”
From Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
by John O’Donohue
“Liberty is a better husband than love.”
louisa may alcott
[On married life] “Very sweet and pretty; but I would rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe.”
louisa May Alcott
“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”
Dr. JOhn Dewey
“There are feminists in theory, but there are also the feminists in practice.”
Jad Abumrad (Talking about Dolly Parton)
“Farm Near Duivendrecht”, Mondrian
“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
“I’ve just done what I’ve damn well wanted to and I made enough money to support myself, and I ain’t afraid of being alone.”
Katharine Hepburn
“If you’re looking through the window instead of looking in that mirror, a certain amount of what comes out of you is…exploration, you know?
Bill Withers
“Every many is a quotation from all his ancestors.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Objectivity: “In philosophy, objectivity is the concept of truth independent from individual subjectivity (bias caused by one’s perception, emotions, or imagination).
Based on Plato
“Step three, I see
Sara Bareilles, “Armor”
The unforgettable, incredible ones
who came before me
Brought poetry, brought science
Sowed quiet seeds of self-reliance
Bloomed in me, so here I am. “
“One of the goals of maturation is to develop a solid, cohesive identity, not one that is shifting around.”
Dr. Drew Pinsky
“Here we are, you and me, Walt and Alan, my grandmother who is and my grandfather who is no more — each of us a trembling totality, made of particles both absolutely vulnerable and absolutely indestructible, hungering for absolutes in a universe of relatives, hungering for permanence in a universe of ceaseless change, famished for meaning, for beauty, for emblems of existence.
The Marginalian
Out of these hungers, out of these contradictions, we make everything that invigorates life with aliveness: our art and our music, our poems and our mathematics, our novels and our loves.”
“…creativity is the art of discovering and combining — the work of an alert imagination that ‘seizes points in common, between subjects having no very apparent connexion, & hence seldom or never brought into juxtaposition.'”
Ada Lovelace, Summarized by The marginalian
Things That Spark 