Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
Even sunshine burns if you get too much.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
“You Learn”
We garden for tomorrow, and thereafter. We garden in expectation, and that is why it is so invigorating.
PENELOPE LIVELY
Life in the Garden
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Pensées
It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The goal of all art is the human face.
PAUL CÉZANNE
Cézanne
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it
JOHN RUSKIN
Pre-Raphaelitism
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Nothing could destroy me as long as I could enjoy works of art, and for “enjoy” read “enjoy”: not codify or classify, or purge my spirit or arouse my social consciousness, just enjoy.
KENNETH CLARK
Another Part of the Wood
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
JOHN BURROUGHS
In the Catskills
Daily life may seem trivial and routine, but in fact it contains a multitude of incidents, at once rich, expansive, and touching.
YU HUA
China in Ten Words
The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savouring it, should be noted.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Journal, April 14, 1913
Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Draft of “Love in Action”
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
OSCAR WILDE
The Picture of Dorian Gray
If you’re going to make a dream come true, you’ve got to work with it. You can’t just sit around. That’s a wish. That’s not a dream.
DOLLY PARTON
Interview, Bust
Laughter is a beautiful form of resilience, one that evinces a generosity of spirit.
ERIKA SANCHEZ
Crying in the Bathroom
