Quotes
Authors
Henry Mitchell
"Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power." --
Source : Henry Mitchell (1999). “One Man's Garden”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Henry Mitchell
#Winter Quotes
#Animal Quotes
#Magic Quotes
“If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.”
“I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.”
“The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!”
“And we will NOT let Campbell's Soup, Old Navy, or anybody ELSE, HAMMER into the minds of girls as YOUNG as SIX YEARS OLD that they should ALWAYS hate their bodies and ALWAYS be on a diet!”
“The wind is tossing the lilacs, The new leaves laugh in the sun, And the petals fall on the orchard wall, But for me the spring is done. Beneath the apple blossoms I go a wintry way, For love that smiled in April Is false to me in May.”
“And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much.”
Source : Kelly Corrigan (2014). “Glitter and Glue: A Memoir”, p.73, Ballantine Books
“Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.”
Source : Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.24, Penguin
“Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.”
