Create a List of 365 Life-Inspiring Quotes

“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.”

Fannie Brice

“Beauty’s nothing but the start of terror we can hardly bear.”

Rainer Rilke, in The First Elegy of the Duino Elegies.

People might gasp, thinking “How is this inspiring?”

I see it as inspiring on multiple layers:

1. Willingness to risk

2. Admiration of beauty, even at the cost of terror

3. The knowledge (confession?) that what some may label, shallowly, good or bad or positive or negative, is so much more.

Thanks for letting me visit! I miss this goal at times and can’t help myself!

“Never love without being beloved.”

Eliza Southgate

An 18 year old in 1801, Eliza was obviously wise, very wise.

It was the pine I looked for, with its tawny pattern of rings, its crisp knots, its willingness to be broken, cut, split and its fragrance that never reached the air but made the heart gasp with sweetness.”

Mary Oliver

The pieces of this I love the most include the willingness to be broken, cut, split and the heart gasping fragrance. I know this smell, I know this heart gasping.

I am re-reading my writing from a year ago and found this one:

””See into life, don’t just look
at it.”

Anne Baxter

Loved, loved, loved it so I thought it was worthy of a bonus, indeed.

“Patience does not mean passivity. Waiting patiently is not like waiting for the bus to come, the rain to stop, or the sun to rise. It is an active waiting in which we live the present moment to the fullest.”

Henri Nouwen

I receive this daily eletter and drink it win… much like I did his book “Can You Drink This Cup” which was sent to me by a 43ter from Amazon.com. I love this place.

I found something in my writing which I found was quote worthy.

“Show up at your point of reckoning. Listen.

Lift up that foot and put it down.

Repeat. Repeat. And repeat.”

Julie Jordan Scott

(Sometimes I surprise myself.)

“A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.”

Wendy Carlos

“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”

Margaret Fuller

Isn’t this one of the reasons we are all here, on 43things? Oh, how I am falling more deeply in love with Margaret Fuller!

“You do not know the breaking through…

“After, after you will look.
You will acknowledge. You will
See through the opening you have cleared.”

Ellen Bass
From her poem “You do not know the breaking through”