Monday, May 30, 2016

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


Monday, May 9, 2016

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)