“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” –Eleanor Roosevelt “Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.” –Linus Pauling “Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.” –VictorContinue reading “Curiosity and Wonder”
Category Archives: Creativity
Keeping Promises to Myself
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas Edison “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” –Confucius “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” –PauloContinue reading “Keeping Promises to Myself”
The End of a project: What’s Next?
“For masterpieces are not single and solitary births: they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people…so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.” –Virginia Woolf “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” –Anne Frank “The only way to enjoyContinue reading “The End of a project: What’s Next?”
Resenting the Success of Others
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.Continue reading “Resenting the Success of Others”
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”― Walter AndersonContinue reading “The Myth of Sisyphus”
Sage Woman Chronicles 