Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
The constant remaking of order out of chaos is what life is all about, even in the simplest domestic chores such as clearing the table and washing the dishes after a meal … but when it comes to the inner world, the world of feeling and thinking, many people leave the dishes unwashed for weeks so no wonder they feel ill and exhausted.
MAY SARTON
Recovering
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
ZORA HEALE HURSTON
Dust Tracks on a Road
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
QUENTIN CRISP
The Naked Civil Servant
Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Moby Dick
Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.
KEITH DOUGLAS
Alamein to Zem Zem
On holiday it is the reversing of normal habits that does one so much good.
R. C. SHERRIFF
The Fortnight in September
If one says ‘Red’ (the name of a colour) and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.
JOSEF ALBERS
Interaction of Color
It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types—people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing—are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.
LAURIE COLWIN
The Lone Pilgrim
In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense.
DALAI LAMA
Ethics for the New Millennium
