Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me for ever.
PAUL KLEE
The Diaries of Paul Klee
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT
Daniel Deronda
Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.
KEITH DOUGLAS
Alamein to Zem Zem
I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.
TA-NEHISI COATES
Between the World and Me
This winter is bringing me to a confrontation with the truth behind truths, like the colour I know to lie just beyond colour.
ANNE TRUITT
Daybook: the Journal of an Artist
But I don’t think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
VIRGNIA WOOLF
Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930
Tasks that can be done at any time are often done at no time.
GRETCHEN RUBIN
