...beauty and grace [in nature] are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
Annie DillardAnything can happen, and anything does;
Annie DillardThree days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciting received analyses of current events. All the Manor residents watched television day and night, informed to the eyeballs like everyone else and rushed for time, toward what end no one asked. Their cupidity and self-love were no worse than anyone else's, but their many experiences' having taught them so little irked Lou. One hated tourists, another southerners; another despised immigrants. Even dying, they still held themselves in highest regard. Lou would have to watch herself. For this way of thinking began to look like human nature--as if each person of two or three billion would spend his last vital drop to sustain his self-importance.
Annie DillardTags: human-nature aging
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
Annie DillardGet to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
Annie DillardTags: imagination writing belief writing-life
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
Annie DillardA great physicist taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published many important books and papers. Often he had an idea in the middle of the night. He rose from his bed, took a shower, washed his hair, and shaved. He dressed completely, in a clean shirt, in polished shoes, a jacket and tie. Then he sat at his desk and wrote down his idea. A friend of mine asked him why he put himself through all that rigmarole. 'Why,' he said, surprised at the question, 'in honor of physics!
Annie DillardDedicate (donate, give all) your life to something larger than yourself and pleasure - to the largest thing you can: to God, to relieving suffering, to contributing to knowledge, to adding to literature, or something else. Happiness lies this way, and it beats pleasure hollow.
Annie DillardThe secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.
Annie DillardThe answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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