quotes
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
Grow your own flowers and give them away to everyone you meet. You’re right: the earth is not very fertile, people are not always grateful, flowers eventually die. But do you still see the point of it all? Do you see the beauty of the gesture?
Catherine Shannon • Everyone is numbing out
via Albert Einstein:
“It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.”
“For every good idea that comes out of you, you need ten good ideas coming into you. And that’s up to you to ensure that you continuously fill yourself up with fresh knowledge and information and impressions so that one thing can come out.” — René Redzepi
Billy Oppenheimer • The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
"Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?"
— Mary Oliver
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Sylvia Plath