“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”— Anthony J. D'Angelo, amazon.com
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, amazon.com
“Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.”— Carl Rogers, amazon.com
“oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much”— Frank O'Hara, amazon.com
“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams we can be together all the time.”— A. A. Milne, amazon.com
“Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my effort to create an equivalent with paint color for the world – life as I see it.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, en.wikiquote.org
“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, goodreads.com
“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.”— C. Joybell C., goodreads.com
“The Present is the moving Infinity, the legitimate sphere of the Relative. Relativity seeks Adjustment; Adjustment is Art. The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“Chinese historians have always spoken of Taoism as the "art of being in the world," for it deals with the present—ourselves. It is in us that God meets with Nature, and yesterday parts from to-morrow.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“The spirit of barter is everywhere. Honour and Chastity! Behold the complacent salesman retailing the Good and True. One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what remains behind? Yet the trusts…”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“Definition is always limitation—the "fixed" and "unchangeless" are but terms expressive of a stoppage of growth.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“It was the process, not the deed, which was interesting. It was the completing, not the completion, which was really vital.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“...how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“How much do we not suffer through the constant failure of society to recognise this simple and fundamental law of art and life; Lichilai, a Sung poet, has sadly remarked that there were three most deplorable things in the world: the spoiling of fine youths through false education, the degradation of…”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish somethi…”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.”— Richard Brautigan, amazon.com
“I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com