January 2012
December 2011
“Be in love with your life. Every detail of it.”
—Jack Kerouac
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
—Vincent van Gogh
“The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it, from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love, because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.”
—Thomas Merton
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing Myself.”
—Rumi
“Paris, I’m in love with … Istanbul, I fell in love with, and in Japan, Kyoto is a passionate, long-lasting love. If I was young, New York would have been fun … Chelsea in London is a phantom love, my mother’s house by the river Thames. But childhood is the place I loved — and miss — the most.”
—Jane Birkin on her favourite place on Earth
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
—John Burroughs
“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.”
—Christopher Hitchens
