Maria Popova
This is the great and terrifying truth about the creative life: Anything we make — all this longing for beauty and meaning, all these reckonings and raptures, these most passionate
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Category: Quotation
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Gary Myers shared this quote in a post, Silent Watch. It resonated with me greatly. Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and
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Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that’s the end
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