Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.
COLSON WHITEHEAD
The Nickel Boys
However dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable “I.”
JOAN DIDION
“On Keeping a Notebook”
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
“Arts and Letters”
You know how it is when someone says your name really well, like it means something that makes the world a better place.
HELEN OYEYEMI
Boy, Snow, Bird
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
The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.
JEAN ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN
The Physiology of Taste
In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day will come when the memory of my present joy will give me the strength to keep giving even when loneliness gnaws at my heart.
HENRI NOUWEN
The Genesee Diary
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock.
JAMES BALDWIN
Nothing Personal
Nobody really looks at anything; it’s too hard.
ANDY WARHOL
I’ll Be Your Mirror
Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddied?
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
Markings
Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.
THOMAS MERTON
Thoughts in Solitude
