Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin
“There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.”
Jerome K. Jerome
“Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature—not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant….As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother’s toy garden.”
C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
Kazuo Ishiguro, interview
