Hi!
This is a direct appeal!
I have a new journal, agenda, datebook, calendar - whatever you might call it. It starts NOW and goes for 18 months! That's a lot of weeks - like, um....78?
Yes, it's an old-fashioned paper, bound book. I have a Google Calendar and all, but I like to write things down. (Writer. It's what we do.)
So...I got this idea to pepper the book with quotes. I collect quotes and have been for a long time. I started filling in short quotes I like in the Monday slot of each week in the diary (another word!). They can't be too long, as there is not that much room, and I might still need to write appointments in on the day.
What I'm going for is to have a hand-written quote for each Monday of the next 18 months. I've gotten a lot, but many of the quotes I've saved are quite long.
Here's my plea:
Do you have any short quotes that you just LOVE? That inspire you, keep you going, set you on your way, affirm your choices, make you laugh in dark times?
Please - if you do - post them in the comments below.
I am hoping to place them variously in the book and forget about them sufficiently that I will be surprised each Monday. I'm also hoping that my somewhat random placement will end up being apt and serendipitous when I do turn the page on a new quote. I'm pre-placing inspiration - something I've never had the forethought to do before, but something I think might be a good idea!
I'd be so happy if you'd share something! Thank you in advance!
xo
3 comments:
Posting some quotes from a reader who back-channeled me!
They are super!
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
-- Maya Angelou (1928-)
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
-- Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (1790-1869)
Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.
-- James Howell (c. 1594-1666)
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
-- Henry Miller (1891-1980)
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
-- Horace (65-8 BCE)
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.” - mel brooks
"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves." - Thomas Edison
"If you are fully in control, then you aren't going fast enough." - Mario Andretti, racing car driver
"Have you ever noticed? Anyone going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a moron." - George Carlin on driving
p.s. Andretti, Edison, and Carlin quotes suggested by @longsongs (that's Twitter...).
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