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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night. I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. [Spring is] a true reconstructionist. It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little. Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it. For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation. Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.Christina Baldwin Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. An optimist is the human personification of spring. People fail forward to success. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. Walking is also an ambulation of mind. Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. What worries you masters you. Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt. We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought. Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. Sport is imposing order on what was chaos. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts. |
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