“Above all, remember that the meaning of life is to live it as if it were a work of art. You’re not a machine. When you’re young, start working on this great work of art called your own existence.”
- From Drops Like Stars by Rob Bell
starry existence
“Above all, remember that the meaning of life is to live it as if it were a work of art. You’re not a machine. When you’re young, start working on this great work of art called your own existence.”
- From Drops Like Stars by Rob Bell
jammies day
I don’t want to get out of bed,
You don’t want to go out in the snow,
We don’t have to do the things Eskimos do,
Let’s have a hibernation day, me and you.
hibernation day - jars of clay
daring sail
“She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.”
— Jeanette Winterson
hopeful collaboration
“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves… Until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
- Sayuri, “Memiors of a Geisha”
fantastical nonsense
“I like nonsense - it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope…and that enables you to laugh at all of life’s realities.”
- Dr Seuss
thank you
“I’m sorry for a lot of things, but most of all that I never got the chance to tell you that, no matter what happens next, I’ll never be anything but grateful for every moment I spent with you. And even though I keep fumbling for the right words, all I really wanted to say was thank you.”
- The Land of Women
senseless dress
“A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.”
- Francoise Sagan
judging love
“People are always asking me, “Do you believe in God?” When they ask me that I ask them, “Do you believe in Love?” I believe in Love. I think everybody has it in them and it’s all the same Love. I don’t need to personify a human emotion. If what you believe makes you happy and you’re not hurting anyone else, I don’t want you to think any different. Who the hell am I to judge you? Just bear me that same respect, please. We are all different. It’s all about freedom and personal liberty. I don’t fuck with you, don’t fuck with me.”
- Unknown
balloon entrance
“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”
- E. M. Forste
new clown
“I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown,” said Dill. “Yes, sir, a clown…. There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.”
“You got it backwards, Dill,” said Jem. “Clowns are sad, it’s folks that laugh at them.”
“Well, I’m gonna be a new kind of clown. I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.””
- To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.
same jump
“And like a favourite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her”
- Emily Giffin (Something Borrowed)
better alone
“It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can’t see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people.”
- E. Lockhart
spontaneous awesomeness
“Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.”
- Helen Merell Lynd
special matter
“I just thought about the word “special.” And I thought the last person who said that about me was my aunt Helen. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do.”
- Stephen Chbosky - Perks of Being a Wallflowe
learned waste
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”
- Lin Yutang
desiring eyes
“I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over―a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any here.”
- John Steinbeck in The Urge to be Someplace Else
agreeable criticisms
“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms”
- George Eliot
gnome gardeners
- Marcel Proust
lavishly love
“She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.”
— Fanny Fern
more night
“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong’. Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’”
- Charles M. Schulz
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