“It seems my heart is made of tissue paper; I wish the world would handle it more delicately.” Richelle E. Goodrich – A Heart Made of Tissue Paper. Henri Martin – Beauty, 1900.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” Rumi Mary Cassatt – Red poppies, 1880.
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.”T.S.Eliot Charles-Victor Guilloux – L’Allée d’Eau, 1895.
“Never look back. The past is done. The future is a blank canvas. Work on creating a masterpiece. Only you have the power to make your painting beautiful. Do not waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing…
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own, 1929. Alexander Akerbladh – Portrait in Blue and Gold, c.1920.
“Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic,…
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” Roy T. Bennett Berthe Morisot – The Bowl of Milk, 1919.
“…believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” Rainer Maria Rilke – Letters…
