work - love - thought

quotes

"We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life."

-- John Cage

"...Humanism and the spirit of reasonableness are associated with the sense of humor and the sense of proportion..."

-- Lin Yutang

"When you love your work and do a good job, the money follows."

-- Eleanor McMillen Brown

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

-- E.J. Phelps

"It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour."

-- Theodor Reik

"No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

-- John Ruskin

"Virtue, study, and gaiety are three sisters who should not be separated."

-- Voltaire

"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater."

-- Epicetus

"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."

-- Theodore Roethke

"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."

-- Booker T. Washington

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

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I was looking for something when began selecting these quotes -- What was I looking for? I don't know, but this is what I found.

These quotes came from Alexandra Stoddard's book, The Art Of The Possible.

She peppers her books with quotations set aside in the margins.

I began, looking for some paragraphs about Work, but wasn't finding what I wanted.

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