"Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?"

-- Emily Carr

#Want Quotes #Behinds Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.”
“Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.”

Source : Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons
“In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.”
“Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.”
“Despair young and never look back,”
“PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.”
“An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.”
“Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.”

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