Quotes - Pico Iyer

"Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands."

Pico Iyer

Quotes - Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed."

Albert Einstein
Renwick Gallery during WONDER exhibition

Happy 2013

Robyn of Art Propelled posted a Neil Gaiman quote that I just can't resist sharing as well.

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
― Neil Gaiman

Wishing you a year of taking chances and making mistakes!

Grace

Listen to your life...See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moment and life itself is grace. Frederick Beuchner

I found this most exquisite quote on Bridgette Guerzon Mill's blog, Contemplating the Moon, this morning and just had to share it.