"... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker."

-- Carolyn Wells

#Eye Quotes #Wish Quotes #Library Quotes

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”

Source : "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.
“She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose]....”
“The last thing I need is for daughter to move back into my basement and become another unemployed millennial statistic. Would love for her to get a job at Facebook. Become the president of Google.”
“I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.”
“If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it.”

Source : "Speak French with Michel Thomas" by Michel Thomas, Disc 3, March 29, 2001.
“Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times.”
“A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder. I use the analogy of running a race. It seems as though you canâ€™t carry on, but if you just get through the pain barrier, you'll see the end and be okay. Often, just around the corner is where the solution will happen.”
“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.”

Source : Quoted in Goodrich and Bry GeorgiaO'Keeffe (1970).

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