“And he beholds the Moon like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”
"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."
- Gustave Flaubert
Awareness
"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
- Gustave Flaubert
Balance
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
- Gustave Flaubert
Hope
"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
- Gustave Flaubert
Self-awareness
"A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies"
- Gustave Flaubert
Adversity
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."
- Will Rogers
Reflection
"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."
- Tom Lehrer
Reflection
"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."
- Lucille Ball
Reflection
"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."
- Pema Chodron
Reflection
"Happy Tuesday! It is a good day to reflect on the week so far and spread happiness."
Reflection