New Post (95) : Ponder these thoughts from French author Marcel Proust.
Ring in a happy 2011 with these pearls of wisdom. Enjoy…
“The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.”
“I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.”
“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind”
“Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.”
“We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.”
I'll be back on the other side of midnight, in 2011.
Charlie Brown
