Quotes August 24, 2021

Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness

 
 
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”
John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
 
 
 
 
“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” The Palm at the End of the Mind
 
 
 
 
“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves.”
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
 
 
 
 
“The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.”
Abraham Lincoln, “Notes for a Law Lecture”
 
 
 
 
“There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle.”
Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road (
 
 
 
 
“We can only know others by ourselves.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
 
 
 
 
“Color exists in itself, has its own beauty.”
Henri Matisse, “The Path of Color”
 
 
 
 
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy, “Three Methods Of Reform,” Pamphlets: Translated from the Russian