Quotes July 16, 2023

I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
Dionne Warwick,
singer
 
 
 
 
A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.
Laurie Colwin,
writer
 
 
 
 
A thriving household depends on the use of seasonal produce and the application of common sense.
Oliver de Serres (1539-1619)
 
 
 
 
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
Our spiritual work is, at its heart, finding a sacred peace in the present, which will change, and which will end.
adrienne maree brown
 
 
 
 
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
John Burroughs
 
 
 
 
Only now are we beginning to understand that all life on Earth depends on the freedom to move.
David Attenborough
 
 
 
 
“I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It’s fragile.”
Alan Shepard
 
 
 
 
We may speak different languages and live very different lives, but when that deep water swells to the surface, it pulls us to each other.
Mark Nepo
 
 
 
 
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
Richard Feynman
 
 
 
 
To be a philosopher you need only three things. First, infinite intellectual eros: endless curiosity about everything. Second, the ability to pay attention: to be rapt by what is in front of you without seizing it yourself, the care of concentration–in the way you might look closely, without touching, at the green lacewing fly, overwintering silently on the kitchen wall. Third, acceptance of pathlessness (aporia): that there may be no solutions to questions, only the clarification of their statement. Eros, attention, acceptance.
Gillian Rose