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Conviction by feeling is not always so vague as it seems. Some of the things to which man clings, calling them felt truths, are so called only because he is not able to adduce tangible proofs to their reality. But frequently, if he applies himself to a thorough examination of all the concrete and theoretical testimonies by which he has persuaded himself to believe certain things, he finds that subconsciously he has really accumulated quite solid structures of logical justification. Intelligence often later supplies proofs of what intuition has long since suspected and proposed
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
She thought you could find inspiration everywhere:
I heard once about a Yiddish poet who lived in utter poverty and misery, a teenager, who never had seen anything beautiful in his life, and he made splendid poems about vegetables jumping into the soup pot. My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you don’t have to look far away. You have to know how to see.
The Work and Wisdom of Hedda Sterne
austinkleon.com
Our happiness is built by attitude and intention. Attitude is not everything, but it’s almost everything. I visited the jazz great Jane Jarvis when she was old, crippled and living in a tiny apartment with a window facing a brick wall. I asked if she was happy and she replied, “I have everything I need to be happy right between my ears.”
The Joy of Being a Woman in Her 70s
Mary Pipher
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