The beginning is always today
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 – 1797 English writer, philosopher and advocate for women’s rights
Sunday Quote: When
Tag: Life
A juicy creative life
It’s time to get serious about joy and fulfillment, work on our books, songs, dances, gardens. But perfectionism is always lurking nearby, like the demonic prowling lion in the Old Testament, waiting to pounce.
Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written, or you didn’t go swimming in those warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart.
Don’t let this happen.
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird, Instructions on Writing and lIfe
Even though
Piglet noticed that even
though he had a very small heart,
it could hold a rather
large amount of gratitude.
A.A. Milne
Go with the river
Every day we’re given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it.
If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.
Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open
The human condition
No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.
Chuck Palahniuk,1962 – American writer, Invisible Monsters
Sunday Quote: Timelessness
At the end of this Mid-Summer week with the “longest” day
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness,
then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present
Wittgenstein, Tractatus, 6.431
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