Tag: Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness

Quotes July 16, 2022

Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness

 
 
Why do two colours, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No.
PABLO PICASSO
 
 
 
 
It showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer limited to observing the world: Now you could join it. Instead of just being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. You could make them yourself.
SUSAN BURTON
 
 
 
 
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Jane Eyre
 
 
 
 
Very few things have so much effect on the feeling inside a room as the sun shining into it.
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
A Pattern Language
 
 
 
 
Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening and sometimes they arise from the past. Perhaps it’s the same with people.
JAMES SALTER
Burning The Days
 
 
 
 
It seemed that one had little control over one’s own destiny. All one could do was to get on with the one job that nobody else could do, the job of being oneself.
MONICA DICKENS
Mariana
 
 
 
 
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 NEALE HURSTON
Dust Tracks on a Road
 
 
 
 
It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Quotes January 05, 2021

Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness

 
 
“Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her.”
Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Amazon, Bookshop)
 
 
 
 
“This winter is bringing me to a confrontation with the truth behind truths, like the colour I know to lie just beyond colour.”
Anne Truitt, Daybook: the Journal of an Artist
 
 
 
 
“Each time of life has its own kind of love.”
Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness
 
 
 
 
“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
 
 
 
 
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack
 
 
 
 
“Color slips through the fingers and escapes. You can’t lock it in a jewel box as it vanishes in the dark.”
Derek Jarman, Chroma: A Book of Color
 
 
 
 
“Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.”
William Edward Hartpole Lecky, The Map of Life
 
 
 
 
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books
 
 
 
 
“Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.”
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
 
 
 
 
“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
Andy Warhol, in Warhol: The Biography by Victor Bockris
 
 
 
 
“Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.”
Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance
 
 
 
 
“I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses…in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.”
Simone Weil, Waiting For God
 
 
 
 
“Nature makes it pleasant to follow her commands.”
Gretchen Rubin