Quotes
May 24th, 2007
I have numerous quotes hanging in my office, some framed, some on post-it notes (from itty-bitty post-it notes to extra large), some on my white board, and some on scrap paper. There is something inspirational about the simple. There are times when I need large texts to expound on an idea, and there are other times when I only need a few simple words.
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“This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we’re most sure that love can’t conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds…the truth is that your spirits don’t rise until you get way down. But when someone enters that valley with you, that mud, it somehow saves you again.”
_Anne Lamott
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
_Albert Einstein
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
_Francis Bacon
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”
_Ansel Adams
“Sometimes it hurts too much to peel back the layers and feel what’s under there. Yet what we’re not healing is hurting us somehow. I believe that the more I share my life and process honestly, the more I can heal, and, in turn, help others to heal.”
_Sark
“Hate doesn’t fix anything. It might feel good to hate- and it does sometimes. Sometimes hate is sweet juice, stuff to get drunk on. But in the morning there’s that headache, and that churning mess in the stomach. So a remedy has to go deep. Deep like redemption. Or like hope. Or like forgiveness.”
_My First White Friend, Patricia Raybon
“We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.”
_Picasso
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adding to the list….
“…grace is opposed to earning, not to effort…” - Dallas Willard
grad school…dun dun dunnn…
“Some students possess the school they work in. Others are possessed by the school.” - Robert Henri
Thanks for sharing these. That Patricia Raybon quote is great.
excellent quotes. the sark quote actually reminds me of a C.S. Lewis story from Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I won’t add to the list, it’s already hard enough to be selective ;)
The Anne Lamott quote was beautiful. And it certainly means a lot at the moment when I seem to be getting to that point! Anyway, thanks.
your wall is kinda like a “common place” book, but not in a book, on a wall. milton kept a common place book and pulled a lot of his idea for paradise lost from his collected quotes. thank you. ironically, francis bacon was opposed to the use of the common place book because he thought it was, well, common. i however, think it’s extraordinary.
Longbrake…
You have no idea who I am, but someone tossed me your blog and I have enjoyed tunning my ear to the “key of longbrake”. I attend MHGS, and hope you have a safe move up here.
Let me add one more quote. Your white board quote brought it to mind.
“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” - Tom Stoppard
Jarrod…
See you in August.
To Seattle!
I read this quote the other day and it reminded me of our convo. at firefly.
“The rhythm of life for a kingdom dweller puts chronos in service of kairos, the cyclical in service of the directional, the calendar in service of the kingdom. … As we submit our anarchy to a rhythm, in a sort of earthy, mystical way, all of life is lived lucidly, intentionally, and to the glory of God. Every washing becomes a baptism; every eating a Communion. Every sleeping becomes a dying; every rising a resurrection.”
- Kenneth Gottman