“Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.”
– Alexander Pushkin
Art ~ Danish school, 19th cent., artist and specific date unknown
Illusion
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Category Archives: Quote
Foreign tongue
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Art by Suzanne Moxhay.
Heaven of hell
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
– John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667
Art by Romany Soup.
‘Be happy’!
” ‘Be happy,’ cried the Nightingale. ‘You shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart’s-blood. All that I ask in return is that you be a true lover…’ ”
Oscar Wilde, “The Nightingale and the Rose”
Art by Christian Schloe.
Show your soul
“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul.”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Art – Van Gogh, A Lane near Arles, 1888.
Music
“I got a little game that I play when it goes really hard, I just start dreaming and all becomes music.”
– Selma Jezková
Art by Julia Lillard.
Time
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
Heraclitus
Art by Joshua Flint.
Light …
“But also I say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it’s done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.”
– Mary Oliver
Art – Gustav Klimt – The Swamp
Dream
“You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.”
– Gregory Peck
Art by Brad Kunkle.
Women Who Run With the Wolves
“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories from your life–not someone else’s life–water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. That is the work. The only work.”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés – Women Who Run With the Wolves
Photography art – Femme Victorienne avec Loup
