Quotes 341: Lao Tzu

"If you tell me, I will listen.

If you show me, I will see.

If you let me experience, I will learn." 

–– Lao Tzu (c. 500 BCE), Chinese philosopher and writer

via Sketchbook 9, 2009, p. 77

Quotes 340: Keri Smith

"Never limit your playtime. Even if your brain is telling you otherwise.

All your best stuff comes from it if you allow yourself to remain open to the unknown." 

–– Keri Smith (b. 1975) Canadian writer, illustrator, and conceptual artist

Quote from Keri Smith blogpost on December 16, 2009

via Sketchbook 9, 2009, p. 66

Quotes 339: C. S. Lewis

"Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before." 

–– C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), Irish-born British writer and lay theologian 

via Sketchbook 9, 2009, p. 61

Quotes 338: William Morris

"If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." 

–– William Morris (1834-1896), British artist, craftsperson, textile designer, and social activist

Quote from The Beauty of Life 1880.

via Sketchbook 9, 2009, p. 56

Quotes 337: T.S. Eliot

"What we call the beginning is often the end

And to make an end is to make a beginning

The end is where we start from."

–– T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), American-born British author 

via Sketchbook 9, 2009, p. 55 

Quotes 336: Italo Calvino

 "Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as words."

–– Italo Calvino (1923-1985), Cuban-born Italian author and journalist 

via Sketchbook 9, 2009, p. 52

Quotes 335: Henry David Thoreau

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

–– Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American essayist, philosopher, and poet  

via Sketchbook 9, 2009, p. 52