Nothing is difficult if you're used to it.
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.
Ideas come through us, not from us.
Enchantment frightens us for good reason. Whether it's enchantment of the ordinary kind or the magical kind, it may very well change us, and we may not be able to return to our old selves, to our old certainties and our easy understandings. Magical p...
The world is a perfect design. If we can see it. If we can see ourselves and our surroundings. A vast sky held up by pillars. A carpet of earth that gives us all the food and fruit and nourishment we need to live. Animals of every species. Some that ...
The Inventor: [to Edward] Let us pretend that we are in the drawing room and the hostess is serving tea. Now many numerous little questions confront us. Should the man rise when he accepts his cup of tea? May lump sugar be taken with the fingers? No....
If obstacles are large, jump higher.
None of us is as smart as all of us.
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us.
Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.
God loves us so much that he doesn’t let us live forever so we can stop making mistakes
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.
You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.
The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, leads us nowhere, and generally devalues us in our own eyes and the eyes of others.
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary
Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.
Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.
