Isak Dinesen

The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#sadness #the-sea #water #tears

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#down #down the road #far #god #made

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#day #difficult #difficult task #every #every day

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#foresight #africa

All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#stories #storytelling #storytelling

A great artist is never poor. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#great #never #poor

I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you... ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#inspirational

You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#inspirational

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#does #finer #silence #tale #tells

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#borne #into #put #sorrows #story