Quotes December 13, 2022

Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness

 
 

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.
ADAM SMITH
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
 
 
 
 
Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice.
ELIAS CANETTI
Notes from Hampstead
 
 
 
 
So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
To The Lighthouse
 
 
 
 
To see things in their true proportion, to escape the magnifying influence of a morbid imagination, should be one of the chief aims of life.
WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY
The Map of Life
 
 
 
 

It does seem that it is often in those years between 8 and 13 that a tiny spark is lit by a teacher telling you or showing you something, and that if you’re lucky, that spark keeps alight and gradually becomes the glowing fire of your lifelong passion and career.
YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM
Mr. Tibbits’s Catholic School
 
 
 
 
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEIN
“What is English Literature,” from Lectures in America
 
 
 
 
Act the way you want to feel.
GRETCHEN RUBIN