previously posted on October 11, 2016)
“Freedom is from within.”
–Frank Lloyd Wright
“I have to protect myself from the toxicity of this culture.”
–Kate Braverman
“Everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.”
–Viktor Frankl
“I dwell in possibility.”
–Emily Dickinson
“Language is the soul’s ozone layer.”
–Sven Birkerts
“You can never step in the same river twice.”
–Heraclitus
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”
–Jean Anouilh
“To refuse The Call means stagnation.”
–Joseph Campbell
“There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.”
–Henry Moore
“The strongest principle of growth lies with human choice.”
–George Eliot
“So true inner peace occurs when one is no longer perpetually restless inside and when one no longer feels the deep, inner, life-long aloneness and alienation anymore.”
–Richard Davies
“Many people would rather die than think and many of them do.”
–Bertrand Russell
“The proper study of mankind is books.”
–Aldous Huxley
“Civilization is an exercise in self-restraint.”
–W.B. Yeats
“Perhaps the androgynous mind is less apt to make these distinctions than the single-sexed mind….the androgynous mind is resonant and porous; that it transmits emotion without impediment; that it is unnaturally creative, incandescent and undivided.”
–Virginia Woolf
“The limits of language stand for the limits of my world.”
–Ludwig Wittgenstein