Inspiration for a Monday Morning

"It is surprising how people will go the distance for what they have at home" 

~ Samuel Johnson

Inspiration for a Monday Morning

"When any fit of gloominess...lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it. By endeavoring to hide it you will drive it away."

~Samuel Johnson

Inspiration for a Monday Morning

"Every song has a CODA, a final movement.Whether it fades out or crashes away. Every song ends. Is that any reason not to enjoy the music? The truth is, there is nothing to be afraid of. It's just life."

Quote for a Monday... Evening?

Okay so I'm late with this one, but it's an extra special quote to compensate. This is from Kafka on the Shore and according to Aristophanes in Plato's, The Banquet.

"In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half."

Inspiration for a Monday Morning

 

"There is a desire within each of us, in the deep center of ourselves that we call our heart. We were born with it, it is never completely satisfied, and it never dies. We are often unaware of it, but it is always awake. It is the human desire for love. Every person in this earth yearns to love, to be loved, to know love. Our true identity, our reason for being, is to be found in this desire… love is the ‘why’ of life: why we are functioning at all, what we want to be efficient for… I am convinced it [love] is the fundamental energy of the human spirit, the fuel on which we run, the wellspring of our vitality. And grace, which is the flowing, creative activity of love itself, is what makes all goodness possible.  Love should come first; it should be the beginning of and the reason for everything."

~ from the Sacred Heart by Gerald May

Inspiration for Monday Morning

"No matter what anyone tells you, words and ideas can change the world"

~ John Keating, Dead Poets Society