“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.”
— Isak Dinesen
“… We’re near each other only if we stay far from each other. Then we can be ourselves. Otherwise we’re only Newland Archer, the husband of Ellen Olenska’s cousin, and Ellen Olenska, the cousin of Newland Archer’s wife, trying to be happy behind the backs of the people who trust them.”
— Edith Wharton, “The Age of Innocence”
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
— George Eliot
“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Idiot”
“Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.”
— Viktor Frankl
Reflection
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”
— Joseph Campbell
“For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson