Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
“When one comes away from an art gallery with a sense of being irradiated, often it is as much from the colors one has absorbed as from the visions of the artists. Much of the thrill of spring, I think, is because of the return of color.”
Ross Parmenter, The Awakened Eye
“To make Routine a Stimulus
Remember it can cease—
Capacity to Terminate
Is a Specific Grace— ”
Emily Dickinson, “To make Routine a Stimulus,” 1196
“People seldom see themselves changing. It is like going out in the morning, or in the springtime to pick flowers. You pick and you wander till suddenly you find that the light is gone and the flowers are withered in your hand.”
Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
“Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.”
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to its devotees.”
Johannes Itten, The Elements of Color
“To change fate, you do not choose small steps.”
Amy Tan, “How to Change Fate: Step 1,” in Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir (
“One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.”
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
