#ring

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things. ↗

— Mary Austin

#dry #find #given #help #landmark

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#following #madness #may #me #morning

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#circular #compass #courses #go #heights

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#bubble #dig #good #just #ready

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#dissolves #earth #fly #native #seat

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ↗

— Ausonius

#brings #count #happiness #know #let us

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience #grief #mourning #others #personal-experience

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. ↗

— Paul Auster

#dead #end #night #number #other

Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up. ↗

— Lee Atwater

#just #keep #know #never #pot

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#during #his #hours #insomnia #office