Sunday Quotes #1

Why do so many...settle for so little?

I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.
-Jack Gilbert

Night hung over the city like a dark mantle, pierced with the light of flambeaux, and up above, there seemed to be a thousand stars. There was as much activity as there was in the daytime. Paris was a city which did not sleep.
-Amanda Grange, Mr. Darcy, Vampyre


Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
-Cecil Beaton


Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of every day, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
-Freya Stark


More than kisses, letters mingle souls; for thus, friends absent speak.
-John Donne


You will try to run and he will let you, but he will be standing exactly where you left him when you went ahead and lost your mind, not because he's a pushover but because he understands you are worth waiting for. And you are, not because he proved it to you, but because he gave you the time to realize it yourself.
-Anais Escobar