"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop."

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Source : Vita Sackville-West, Mary Ann Caws (2003). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, p.125, Palgrave Macmillan

Vita Sackville-West

#Life Quotes #Time Quotes #Butterfly Quotes

“It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.”
“In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver”
“I wake up feeling clear and energized in the morning What is most profound for me about this light eating pattern is the flow of cosmic energy I feel coursing through my body. During the day it feels as if joy is simply running through every cell independent of external factors.”

Source : Gabriel Cousens (2000). “Conscious Eating”, p.233, North Atlantic Books
“It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
“Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.”
“Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.”
“Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong”
“Blissâ€”a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, consciousâ€”lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like youâ€™ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and itâ€™s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.”

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