Recently Enjoyed Quotes: Spring 2020
From books, articles, podcasts, social media & more, here are some quotes I’ve highlighted, underlined, or scribbled down recently.
“The will of God, for those who insist on using the term, is the ceaseless longing of the spirit in you to become all you’re capable of being.”
“In order to contribute to the creation of the world, rather than its destruction, an individual must act on behalf of the collective. Humankind takes leaps when individuals take steps.”
“The word ‘emergency’ derives from the Latin emergere, which means ‘to arise, bring to light’. The word ‘apocalypse’ derives from the Greek apokalyptein, which means ’to uncover, to reveal.’ The word ‘crisis’ derives from the Greek krisis, meaning ‘decision.’ Encoded into our language is the understanding that disasters tend to expose that which was previously hidden.”
“What is inside of us is often more real than what it outside of us.”
“When nothing is certain, anything is possible.”
“When things get complicated the remedies need to be simple: Light and water.”
“Boys and men are earth and stone,” my mama used to say. “But you girls, us women, we’re water. We can wear away earth and stone, if it come to it.””
“I want to accept myself and expect more from myself.”
“A stumble may prevent a fall.”
“It’s an artist’s duty to reflect the times in which we live.”
“Only when one is connected to one’s own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.”
“We Americans with our terrific emphasis on youth, action and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, overreaching and overstraining ourselves in the unnatural effort. We do not succeed, of course. We cannot compete with our sons and daughters. And what a struggle it is to race with these overactive and under-wise adults! In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.”
“When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror it’s ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity—in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern. The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what to might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.”
“When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love, and faith.”
“A relationship is an activity, it’s not a state.”
“Never be cool. Never try to be cool. Never worry what the cool people think. Head for the warm people. Life is warm. You’ll be cool when you’re dead. ”
