Quotes July 20, 2021

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?”
Rose Kennedy
 
 
 
 
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
Adyashanti
 
 
 
 
Though leaves are many, the root is one.
William Butler Yeats
 
 
 
 
The word En’owkin in the Okanagan language elicits the metaphorical image of liquid being absorbed drop by single drop through the head (mind). It refers to coming to understanding through a gentle process of integration.
Jeanette Armstrong
 
 
 
 
Our longings are a unique manifestation of the universe’s longings. In listening to the depths of life, within our lives and within every life, we will hear the longings of the One that are deeper than the fears that divide us.
John Philip Newell
 
 
 
 
My work is loving the world.
Mary Oliver
 
 
 
 
The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.
Glenn Gould
 
 
 
 
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
 
 
 
 
Editing is really like plumbing a good deal of the time. You put two things together, and a current runs through it.
Thelma Schoonmaker
 
 
 
 
I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town to try out. I worked backstage at summer stock doing jobs from garbage man to strapping on Herbert Marshall’s wooden leg to fixing Gloria Swanson’s broken plumbing in her dressing room with her yelling at me as I worked the plunger.
John Guare
 
 
 
 
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
Dolly Parton
 
 
 
 
“Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful.”
Michelle Obama
 
 
 
 
“It’s not what you look for that matters, it’s what you see.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
“This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.”
Dorothy Fuldheim
 
 
 
 
“There are going to be people in your life who change your trajectory. They’re going to walk into your life for a moment, a lifetime, or anytime in between. And they’re going to disrupt something in your life. They’ll challenge you, they’ll shake your beliefs, they’ll trigger you and then stand by you as you work through your healing. These people will teach you and be taught by you. You’ll dance and play. You’ll see the softer sides that others don’t get to see. They’ll lay down markers on your life’s timeline. Markers that roar “I was here”. Pre me. Post me. They’re the life changers. The good type of change. Not the one that takes you away from yourself… but the one that brings you home. “
Vienna Pharaon