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Category Archives: Writing
Wise Words: Andy Warhol
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Wise Words: Learned Hand
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.
Wise Words: Andrea Barrett
I think science and writing are utterly the same thing. They are completely rooted in passion and desire, if they are any good at all. You can fall in love with the natural world in the same way you fall in love with a person. There’s that same sense of helplessness, of lacking control over how much of your life you want to devote to it.
Wise Words: R. Buckminster Fuller: beauty
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Wise Words: Martha Graham
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium. It will be lost. The world will not have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
Wise Words: Eleanor Roosevelt: mature person
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
Wise Words: Thomas Carlyle: do what lies at hand
Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Wise Words: Osho
Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You’ll see that no one else, other than you, was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival.
Wise Words: Ingrid Bacci
Learning to let go of the ways we inadvertently and unconsciously contribute to our own pain is the key to finding radiant physical and emotional health.
