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isn’t that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe.
My susceptibility to the seeming poetry of random chance is both blessing and curse.
Each of us is a museum that opens for business the moment we’re born, with memory the sole curator.
When the present feels as endless as an impossibly long hallway between airport terminals, white and sterile and numb, we’re particularly receptive to signs.
a book will find you when you need to be found;
persons who are wedded to good old points of view, most respectable people in fact, hate the effort of adjusting themselves to uncertain new ones.”
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!
Studies suggest that high ceilings encourage creative thinking; that smooth, literally cool materials such as chrome and glass connote a sense of psychological coldness, possibly because they remind us of ice, whereas wood, which has a higher resting temperature than metal, evokes a feeling of warmth; that the angular forms common to high-modernist furniture pose the same threat to our animal brains as does a sharp rock or tree branch—something to be on the alert for, not relax into. Rooms painted red, a color we automatically associate with danger, make us better at paying attention to
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“To do what you are afraid to do is to guide your life by fear. How much better not to be afraid to do what you believe in doing! Keep one main idea, and you will never be lost.”
to live happily alone requires a serious amount of intentional thought. It’s not as simple as signing the lease on your own apartment and leaving it at that. You must figure out what you need to feel comfortable at home and in the world, no matter your means (indeed, by staying within your means), and arrange your life accordingly—a metaphorical architecture.
“While the main purpose of a door is to admit, its secondary purpose is to exclude.”
Few realizations are as demoralizing as knowing that the only thing standing between you and what you want is yourself,
