Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
Songs last forever. They fix particular years in your mind.
DIANA VREELAND
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
RALPH ELLISON
Writers at Work
A library is a medicine cabinet. What can heal one person may not work at all for somebody else.
SANDRA CISNEROS
A House of My Own
Prodigy is, at its essence, adaptability and persistent, positive obsession. Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment.
OCTAVIA BUTLER
String Too Short to Be Saved
We can take a wonderful vacation in spirit, even though we are obliged to stay at home, if we will only drop our burdens from our minds for a while.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER
The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder
The creative mind plays with the object it loves.
CARL JUNG
Psychology Types
But real flowers can never be dispensed with. If they could, human life would be a different affair altogether.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Jacob’s Room
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
JOHN BURROUGHS
In The Catskills
One does not ‘find oneself’ by pursuing one’s self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through some discipline or routine … who one is and wants to be.
MAY SARTON
The House By the Sea
One’s life begins on so many occasions, constructing itself out of accident derived from coincidence compounded by character.
DONALD HALL
Unpacking The Boxes
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves.
LAURA ESQUIVEL
Like Water for Chocolate
