The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
-Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
“Art is a jealous mistress.”
| — | R.W. Emerson |
“A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.”
| — | R.W. Emerson |
“I’d say go to hell, but I never want to see you again.”
| — | Sylvia Plat |
“The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple’s a rose.”
| — | Robert Frost |
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
| — | Albert Einstein |
“An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance with joy.”
| — | R.W. Emerson |
“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.”
| — | R.W. Emerson |
“If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
| — | Vincent Van Gogh |
“Why do we love the sea?
It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.”
| — | Robert Henri |
“And yet I demand
that your heart survive
on its own,
belonging only to itself,
whole, entirely whole,
and workable
in its dark cavern under your ribs.”
| — | Anne Sexton – The Complete Poems |
“At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. It prepares you for life as a Buddhist. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.”
“Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.”
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
| — | Albert Camus |
