Quotes

Silence →

Published October 23, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 23  ·  ,

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

~ Mark Twain

slip:4a1309.

Youthful exuberance →

Published October 22, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 22  ·  ,

You are only young once. After that you have to think up some other excuse.

~ Billy Arthur

slip:4a1308.

Creative work →

Published October 21, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 21  ·  , ,

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

~ Mary Oliver

slip:4a1306.

Have it over →

Published October 20, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 20  ·  

Don’t stand shivering upon the bank; Plunge in at once and have it over.

~ Haliburton

slip:4a1307.

Learners →

Published October 19, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 19  ·  ,

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

~ Eric Hoffer

slip:4a1304.

Too late →

Published October 18, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 18  ·  ,

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

~ Alexander Pope

slip:4a1305.

Reading →

Published October 17, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 17  ·  ,

Reading must occur every day, but it is not just any daily reading that will do. The day’s reading must include at minimum a few lines whose principal intent is to be beautiful—words composed as much for the sake of their composition as for the meaning they convey.

~ Mandy Brown

slip:4a1302.

Passion →

Published October 16, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 16  ·  ,

Passion creates, addiction consumes.

~ Gabor Maté

slip:4a1303.

Prioritize →

Published October 15, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 15  ·  

I’m struck by how, except when you’re young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don’t get that sort of system set by a certain age, you’ll lack focus and your life will be out of balance.

~ Haruki Murakami

slip:4a1301.

Writer’s block →

Published October 14, 2023  ·  All posts on Oct 14  ·  , ,

Re: Writer’s Block. Perhaps more should have it. Perhaps the disease, the dilemma, the affliction is trying to tell the writer something. Much that is being produced is unnecessary, indulgent. When the sincerity, the weird naïveté and enchanted stupor of writing leaves the host—the writer—one can only pray for their return, their reintegration.

~ Joy Williams

slip:4a1300.