Image: The artist Anders Zorn and his wife Emma.
Tag: Quotes
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QUOTE: “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” Rumi
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QUOTE: “I am more afraid of deserving criticism, than of receiving it.” William Gladstone.
Are family members our worst critics or our best?
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QUOTE: “Being not unacquainted with woe, I learned to help the unfortunate.” Virgil.
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Moments
An illusion haunts us, that a long duration, as a year, a decade, a century, is valuable. But an old French sentence says, “God works in moments.” We ask for long life, but ’tis deep life or grand moments that signify. Let the measure of Time be spiritual, not mechanical. Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance–what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
**Paintings by 19th century American artist Thomas Hovenden
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QUOTE: “Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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In the end, we remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Martin Luther King
Thinking of all the men and women who never come home. This painting never gets old for me.
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By religion I mean the power, whatever it be, which makes a man choose what is hard rather than what is easy; what is lofty and noble rather than what is mean and selfish; that puts courage into timorous hearts and gladness into clouded spirits. –Arthur C. Benson.
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“Genius is intensity.” Honore Balzac.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again–
So the chase takes up one’s life, that’s all.
–Robert Browning.
