Quotes January 21, 2018

“Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.”
Bernard Berenson, Sunset and Twilight, from the Diaries of 1947-1958
 
 
 
 
“Life is a roar of bargain and battle, but in the very heart of it there rises a mystic spiritual tone that gives meaning to the whole. It transmutes the dull details into romance. It reminds us that our only but wholly adequate significance is as parts of the unimaginable whole. It suggests that even while living we are living to ends outside ourselves.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
 
 
 
 
You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
Robin Williams
 
 
 
 
The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.
Randy Pausch,
professor
 
 
 
 
It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
Abigail Adams,
First Lady and political adviser
 
 
 
 
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Ho
 
 
 
 
The best thing my teacher ever taught me was to keep my eyes on my own paper.
Anonymous