Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
– Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4964-love-is-that-condition-in-which-the-happiness-of-another
Apr 152013
Apr 142013
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun, like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
– Fred Rogers, aka “Mister Rogers”
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/180952-love-isn-t-a-state-of-perfect-caring-it-is-an
Apr 132013
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
Apr 122013
When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
– Vincent van Gogh
Apr 112013
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
– Tom Robbins
Apr 102013
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of
subconsciousness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis
of self- consciousness.
– Aaron Copland
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/aaroncopla163857.html
Apr 092013
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not
understand.
– Frank Herbert