swissmiss

“Marriage as a long conversation. – When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you’re together will be devoted to conversation.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am not telling you to make the world better. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment.”
– Joan Didion

“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
― bell hooks

“Connection is not a transaction; it’s a vibrational field we can tap into on a daily basis in the most mundane of circumstances.”
– Esther Perel

“I wish you a kinder sea.”
– Emily Dickinson

“The World is a Museum of Passion Projects.”

“So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.”
– Rainbow Rowell.

One of my favorite quotes. Reminding myself of this as I navigate choppy waters.

“Finding the way, is the way.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“To create is to live twice.”
– Albert Camus

“Your purpose is not the thing you do. It’s the thing that happens in others when you do what you do.”
– Dr. Caroline Leaf

“Love is never wasted,
For its value does not rest upon reciprocity.”
– C. S. Lewis

“It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”
– Robert M. Pirsig

(via)

“I tell myself
there is

no self-
I am just

a place
where the

universe
happens
to be
happening

telling itself
through me.”

– John Brehm

“…noticing what we love in common, and studying that, might help us survive.”
— Ross Gay

“The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they are being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.”
– Seth Godin

(This sums up our CreativeMornings Clubs hosts)

“I suppose,
is to hope the world
keeps its balance;
what we are to do, however,
with our hearts
waiting and watching—truly
I do not know.”
– Mary Oliver

“No one ever tells you that bravery feels like fear.”
– Mary Kate Teske

“Whenever I get asked to do a project, I always think of it as an opportunity to promote my values.”
– Rick Owens

I think the same thing when I give a talk, like this last weekend, at WECode Harvard.

“Destruction and renewal are part of the same cycle. Indigenous knowledge has always understood this. It’s not about avoiding collapse-it’s about preparing for regeneration.”
– Mellisa K.Nelson

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson