swissmiss

“May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful.”
— Mary Oliver

“You are a museum of everything you have ever loved.”

(via)

“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
– Seneca

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

“The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us and sometimes even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.”
– Pope Leo XIV

From this speech

“The more I think it over,
the more I feel that there is
nothing more truly artistic
than to love people.”
– Vincent van Gogh

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
– Viktor Frankl

“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