Archive for the ‘quote’ tag
thankful
it is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy, it is disposition alone. seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other and seven days are more than enough for others.
- jane austen
to my beloved on our eighth wedding anniversary,
i have found that even eight years has been insufficient to make us fully acquainted. i hope our intimate conversation lasts for many, many more years to come.
i love you
live our own lives
…it sets one to dream to think about being called out to greater things…
…but at the end of it all when we put any book down, no matter how inspiring, we are left facing ourselves in the mirror, with the need to get up each morning walk out the door and live our own lives.
- david whyte. the three marriages: reimagining work, self and relationship
dv09-02
lunch. canon powershot g9
Clementine: You know me, I’m impulsive.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
{ for darlene’s december views }
dv09-01
a year of adventures. canon 400d, 50mm f/1.8 II
outside our small safe place flies Mystery
- a.s. byatt, from possession: a romance
{ for darlene’s december views }
Finding balance
Every now and then go away,
Have a little relaxation,
For when you come back to your work
Your judgement will be surer;
Since to remain constantly at work
Will cause you to lose power of judgement…
Go some distance away
Because the work appears smaller
And more of it can be taken in at a glance,
And a lack of harmony or proportion is more readily seen.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
enemies
daily prayers, pere lachaise cemetery, paris
disarmed i realised how easily you can lose all animosity towards someone you’ve deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.
- carlos ruiz zafón.
(from: the shadow of the wind)
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the above quote got me… i read it, re-read it and have gone back to it over and over again.
it has me considering how I might be able to apply this in my own life… how I might be able to disarm others with my own behaviour by treating them with consideration rather than as an enemy.
it’s not that i specifically, or deliberately, do treat anyone as an enemy, more that i totally get what the author has written about being treated in a kind and friendly way; how when one response is expected, that another is disarming.
