"Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy."

-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

#Joy Quotes #Path Quotes #Moments Quotes

“When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.”
“It's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.”
“I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.”
“In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.”
“Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.”

Source : Daniel H. Pink (2010). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.58, Canongate Books
“The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly-man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street.”
“All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.”
“Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.”

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