I’ve logged more experience than most with simplicity and the complexity you discover inside simplicity, minimalism and asocial behavior, endurance and landscape.
Here is the truth: I think some deep wisdom inside me (a) sensed the stress, (b) was terrified for me, and (c) gave me something new and hard to focus on in order to prevent me from lapsing into a despair coma — and also to keep me from having a jelly jar of wine in my hand.
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Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. Samuel Johnson
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
Samuel Johnson
Venus favors the bold. Ovid
Venus favors the bold.
Ovid
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security . . . may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician, or any other of thousands of things, because . . . it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no “future.” Henry M. Wriston
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security . . . may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician, or any other of thousands of things, because . . . it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no “future.”
Henry M. Wriston
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. Rita Mae Brown
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? Jean Jacques Rousseau
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean Jacques Rousseau
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. Cynthia Heimel
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are for. John A. Shedd
A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are for.
John A. Shedd
We are asleep with compasses in our hands. W.S. Merwin
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W.S. Merwin
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. Source unknown
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
Source unknown
There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. Joseph de Maistre
There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work.
Joseph de Maistre
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I’ll try again tomorrow. Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I’ll try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher
I have not failed. I have found ten thousand ways that won’t work. Thomas Edison
I have not failed. I have found ten thousand ways that won’t work.
Thomas Edison
Envy is a con man, a tugger at your sleeve, a knocker at your door. Let me in for just a moment, it says, for just one moment of your time. . . . The antidote to envy is one’s own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself. It drives the spooks away. Bonita Freedman
Envy is a con man, a tugger at your sleeve, a knocker at your door. Let me in for just a moment, it says, for just one moment of your time. . . . The antidote to envy is one’s own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself. It drives the spooks away.
Bonita Freedman
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do. Ernest Hemingway
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.
Ernest Hemingway
The writer does not learn to write so that he can “write,” but because without the necessary tools he cannot dig his way out of prison. Alan Swallow
The writer does not learn to write so that he can “write,” but because without the necessary tools he cannot dig his way out of prison.
Alan Swallow
Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. Chinese saying
Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in.
Chinese saying
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. Garth Henrichs
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
Garth Henrichs
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing. Mignon McLaughlin
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
Mignon McLaughlin
What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. Willa Cather
What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather
Art is spirituality in drag. Jennifer Yane
Art is spirituality in drag.
Jennifer Yane
I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. Vincent van Gogh
I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent van Gogh
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