Quotes: Anaïs Nin

"When I cannot bear outer pressures any more, I begin to put order in my belongings. I get satisfaction from perfect order in my papers, in my clothes, in the house. I carry this to excess. As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects. There is a mania for discarding the useless, uncluttering the house, beautifying, tidying, a mania for super efficiency. I spend hours on this. It gives me peace."

–– Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), French-Cuban American writer

Quotes: Julie Andrews

"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly." 

–– Julie Andrews (b. 1935), English singer, actress, and author 

Quotes: Pico Iyer

"We've always needed rituals to give continuity to our lives, to offer protection and even meaning to our hours, to humble and exalt us with the reminder that our days are not as random as they seem. Ritual is what turns chaos into a kind of order."

–– Pico Iyer (b. 1957) British-born novelist and essayist 

Source: Pico Iyer. 'Rituals of the Fast-Moving World.' enRoute Magazine, October 2019, p. 78. 

via: Sketchbook 31, 2019, p. 15.

Quotes: Matthew Fox

* I'm learning how to play with text in Adobe Illustrator. This is my first successful experiment.

–– Matthew Fox (b. 1940), American priest, theologian, and author