Quoteshttp://basic-joy.com/quotes/en-US2012-02-12T10:29:32ZSquarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2012/1/4/wonder-go-on-and-wonder-william-faulkner.htmlAnne2012-01-04T21:09:30ZWonder. Go on and wonder.

~ William Faulkner

]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2011/5/12/i-believe-in-kindness-also-in-mischief-also-in-singing.htmlAnne2011-05-12T14:51:32ZI believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

~Mary Oliver

]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2011/4/13/god-allows-disappointment-to-occur-on-the-threshold-of-ever.htmlAnne2011-04-13T19:17:42ZGod allows disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavor.  It occurs when the boy who has been enchanted in the nursery by Stories from the Odyssey buckles down to really learning Greek.  It occurs when lovers have got married and begin the real task of learning to live together.  In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing.

~C.S. Lewis

]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2011/4/7/worry-does-not-empty-tomorrow-of-its-sorrow-it-empties.htmlAnne2011-04-07T19:39:25ZWorry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

~Corrie Ten Boom

]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2011/1/25/be-joyful-though-you-have-considered-all-the-facts.htmlAnne2011-01-25T17:07:15ZBe joyful though you have considered all the facts.

~Wendell Berry

]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2011/1/16/you-cannot-stay-on-the-summit-forever-you-have-to-come-dow.htmlAnne2011-01-16T16:39:25ZYou cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

~Rene Daumal, Mount Analogue

]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2010/8/21/some-days-you-must-learn-a-great-deal-but-you-should-also.htmlAnne2010-08-21T19:42:35ZSome days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It’s hollow.

~ E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2010/4/15/i-cant-give-you-a-surefire-formula-for-success-but-i-can.htmlAnne2010-04-15T19:28:16ZI can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

~Herbert Bayard Swope

]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2010/4/9/cling-to-simplicity-sincerity-serenity-and-the-power-of.htmlAnne2010-04-09T17:51:49ZCling to simplicity, sincerity, serenity, and the power of truth.

~I Ching

]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2010/2/12/the-most-exciting-movement-in-nature-is-not-progress.htmlAnne2010-02-12T22:53:52Z"The most exciting movement in nature is not progress, advance, but expansion and contraction, the opening and shutting of an eye, the heart, the mind. We throw our arms wide with a gesture of religion to the universe; we close them around a person. We explore and adventure for a while and then draw in to consolidate our gains...the breathless swing is between subject matter and form."

~Robert Frost

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