Search results for “routine”
Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are
“My life… runs back through time and space to the very beginnings of the world and to its utmost limits. In my being I sum up the earthly inheritance and the state of the world at this moment.”
Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness
“The key is building fires where you can warm yourself as you wait for the tempest to pass.”
An Artist’s Life Manifesto: Marina Abramović’s Rules of Life, Solitude, and Silence
“An artist should stay for long periods of time looking at the stars in the night sky.”
In the Company of Women: Wisdom and Advice on the Creative Life from Beloved Women Artists, Makers, and Entrepreneurs
Neko Case, Nikki Giovani, Tavi Gevinson, Maira Kalman, Debbie Millman, Carrie Brownstein, and more.
May Sarton on the Cure for Despair and Why Solitude Is the Seedbed of Self-Discovery
“Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.”
Physicist David Bohm on Creativity
“No really creative transformation can possibly be effected by human beings … unless they are in the creative state of mind that is generally sensitive to the differences that always exist between the observed fact and any preconceived ideas, however noble, beautiful, and magnificent they may seem to be.”
Stitching the Stars: Trailblazing Astronomer Maria Mitchell on the Needle as a Double-Edged Instrument of the Mind and Why Women Are Better Suited for Astronomy Than Men
“The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spider web of the micrometer.”
C.S. Lewis on Equality and Our Core Misconception About Democracy
“The tempter always works on some real weakness in our own system of values: offers food to some need which we have starved.”
De Profundis: Patti Smith Reads Oscar Wilde’s Stirring Letter on Suffering and Transcendence, Penned in Prison
“I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me… There is not a single degradation of the body which I must not try and make into a spiritualising of the soul.”
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