“Labour to keep alive in your Breast that Little Spark of Celestial fire Called Conscience.”
From Amor Towles “Rules of Civility” (The appendix: The Young George Washington’s Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation: Rule 110), Book quotes
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“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.”
Orison Sweet Marden, author
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“Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life.
You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast. If tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow.
What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos.”
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake.”
“Make a difference about something other than yourselves.”
Toni Morrison, writer, 1931-2019
“The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space”
Mark Tobey, painter
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer;
a man who works with his hands and his mind is a craftsman;
but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”
Louis Nizer, lawyer, author
Featured image: Painter Eloy Morales – Self Portrait (a work in progress)
