I'd Rather Learn

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."
~ e. e. cummings

Eternal Now

"There is a gust of eternity in every fleeting moment." ~ Marty Rubin

We're all in the same small boat

"Injustice for one is injustice for all."  (Quote by Martin Luther King Jr.? Or Gandhi?)

Hard Choice

It's true we nearly always have a choice, but there's no promise any of the options will be good ones.  Sometimes it's a matter of "would you rather be shot or poisoned"?

Lamott on Truth-Telling

"You own everything that happened to you.  Tell your stories.  If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better."  ~ Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions On Writing And Life

Quotes by Type Fours

A Batch of Quotes to be sorted later, all from
Chapter 10 -- Type four: The Individualist of The Wisdom of The Enneagram by Riso and Hudson

"All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.  All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up."  ~ James Baldwin

"After all, perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent."  ~ Albert Camus

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."  ~ Marcel Proust

"It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures." ~  William Hazlitt

"It takes a genius to whine appealingly."  ~  F. Scott Fitzgerald

Love Like Laundry

"You are the dryer-sheet of my heart."
"And you're the lint-trap of my love."
(Sheldon and Amy on The Big Bang Theory)

Forgiveness

"Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."
~ Jesus on the cross (Luke 23:34)

This, maybe more than any other Scripture verse, amazes me and causes me to ponder the profundity of Christ's fathomless mercy.

Picasso on time

It takes a long time to grow young.  -- Pablo Picasso

Merton's Prayer

• "My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone."  ~ Thomas Merton

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