Recently Enjoyed Quotes: Fall 2022
From books, articles, podcasts, social media & more, here are some quotes I’ve highlighted, underlined, or scribbled down recently.
“Shame is a lie somebody told you about yourself.”
“Living more simply can change your whole life; there’s something powerful and liberating about paring down to the essentials. I think we actually crave a life without so much stuff in it and so many things to do. When there’s less distraction, we feel less burdened; we flourish and have more energy. When there aren’t as many things around us, we respond more fully to the world and to one another.”
“Ninety-nine percent is the same as zero.”
“There is more to life than just continuing to do what we know.”
“Every single time I see the ocean, even if I’ve been there in the morning, it feels like a new miracle—its power, its blueness always just as overwhelming. Like falling in love.”
“Evelyn let out a long stream of smoke. She said, They go together. It’s what we’ve always done. Left a mark on a cave, or on a page. Showing who we are, sharing our view of the world, the life we’re made to bear. Our turmoil is revealed in those painted faces—sometimes tenderly, sometimes grotesquely, but art becomes a mirror. All the symbolism and the paradox, ours to interpret. That’s how it becomes part of us. And as counterpoint to our suffering, we have beauty. We like beauty, don’t we? Something good on the eye cheers us. Does something to us on a cellular level, makes us feel alive and enriched. Beautiful art opens our eyes to the beauty of the world Ulysses. It repositions our sight and judgement. Captures that which is fleeting. A meager stain in the corridors of history, that’s all we are. A little mark of scuff. One hundred and fifty years ago Napoleon breathed the same air as we do now. The battalion of time marches on. Art versus humanity is not the question, Ulysses. One doesn’t exist without the other. Art is the antidote. Is that enough to make it important? Well yes, I think it is.”
“Take only what you need and use everything you take.”
“We may not have wings or leaves, but we humans do have words. Language is our gift and our responsibility.”
“Things can be hard and painful and still be right.”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“We desire to bequeath two things to our children: the first one is roots, the other one is wings. ”
