“Art exists because life is not enough.”
— Ferreira Gullar
“Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.”
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Life doesn’t always introduce
you to the people you want to meet.
Sometimes life puts you
in touch with the people
you need to meet –
to help you,
to hurt you,
to leave you,
to love you,
and to gradually strengthen
you into the person
you were meant to become.
Perhaps the biggest mistake I made in the past was that I believed love was about finding the right person. In reality, love is about becoming the right person. Don’t look for the person you want to spend your life with. Become the person you want to spend your life with.
“I have spent my whole life terrified. Scared of things that could go wrong. Things that might happen; things that might not happen. But in time I’ve seen that it’s fear that’s the real enemy. So get up. Get out there, and live the life you want to live.”
— Unknown
a nice idea: i wake up, the love of my life is tangled up in the sheets next to me, the sun is shining, my plants are alive and i know that there’s loads of fresh fruit in our kitchen. life is good.
“The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what’s going to happen in life, but we can’t give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.”
—
Joy Fielding, Still Life
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
