Julia Margaret Cameron quotes and words of wisdom

"When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued."
Found in the topic Depressed.

"The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."
Found in the topic Attention.

"I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on your wrists. "There, there," my words would say ? Or something better. I would ask them to murmur, "Hush" and "Shh, shhh, it"s all right." I would ask them to hold you all night. I wish I could take language And daub and soothe and cool Where fever blisters and burns, Where fever turns yourself against you. I wish I could take language And heal the words that were the wounds You have no names for."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Leap, and the net will appear."
Found in the topic Risk.

Interesting Quotes

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.Douglas Adams - English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham - English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)