{"id":20031,"date":"2013-05-14T16:49:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T22:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20031"},"modified":"2013-05-27T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T02:46:10","slug":"quotes-more-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20031","title":{"rendered":"Quotes more quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTo be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nSimone Weil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cIn every parting there is an image of death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nGeorge Eliot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cIt is never too late to be what you might have been.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nGeorge Eliot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cWhat you remember saves you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2015 W. S. Merwin<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nVoltaire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cThe
\nEarth would die
\nIf the sun stopped kissing her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nHafiz<\/em>\u00a0– The Gif<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cAt the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nFederico Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cPainting is not an aesthetic operation\u00a0; it is a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nPablo Picasso<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cOnce you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nJames Blanchard<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cIf you are lonely when you\u2019re alone, you are in bad company\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nJean-Paul Sartre<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cA great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nWalter Bagehot<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cThe greatest mystery of all is reality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nBeckman<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cI was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nSimone de Beauvoir<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cThere is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nAlbert Camus<\/em>\u00a0– The Myth of Sisyphus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cReading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nDavid Hume<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cArchitecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nLudwig Mies van der Rohe<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cI am an idealist. I do not know where I am going but I am on my way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nCarl Sandburg<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cOf all the words of mice and men, the saddest are \u2018It might have been.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nKurt Vonnegut<\/em>\u00a0– Cat\u2019s Cradle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cDeath is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nLudwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cDo not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nSiddh\u0101rtha Gautama<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cTruth is stranger than fiction, but that may well be because we have made fiction to suit ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nG.K. Chesterton<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nRay Bradbury<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cTo be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.\u201d \u2014 Simone Weil \u201cIn every parting there is an image of death.\u201d \u2014 George Eliot \u201cIt is never too late to be what you might have been.\u201d \u2014 George Eliot \u201cWhat you remember saves you.\u201d \u2015 W. S. Merwin … Continue reading Quotes more quotes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20031"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20042,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20031\/revisions\/20042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}