Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
The different and the novel are sweet, but regularity and repetition are also teachers.
MARY OLIVER
Long Life
Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Forever — is composed of Nows –
EMILY DICKINSON
The Poems of Emily Dickinson
I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.
EDITH WHARTON
A Backward Glance
If we pick up a brush, we feel like writing; if we hold a musical instrument in our hands, we wish to play.
YOSHIDA KENKO
Essays in Idleness
A rose looks different when you can smell it. A ballroom looks different when you can hear music.
HENRY GRUNWALD
Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight
‘Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,’ said his cousin. ‘But we seem to have no other.’
IVY COMPTON-BURNETT
Manservant and Maidservant
Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM
The Solitary Summer
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
Markings
There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place.
G. K. CHESTERTON
The Everlasting Man
Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value.
Act the way you want to feel.
GRETCHEN RUBIN
