Die goldenen Fäden

"Wenn es einen Glauben gibt,
der Berge versetzen kann,
so ist es der Glaube an die eigene Kraft."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"I wish for the same thing I've hoped for since the beginning.
I wish for a life so brave, so unpredictable,
so full of unexpected joys and
unforgettable love that no box could possibly
contain all my memories.
Such a life won't be perfect.
It'll be something better.
It'll be my own paradise."

Patti Smith

"Write as if you were dying.
At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients.
That is, after all, the case.
What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon?
What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?"
aus: Annie Dillard: The Writing Life, New York: Harper Perennial 1990, 68.

"Wenn man mit Flügeln geboren wurde,
sollte man alles dazu tun,
sie zum Fliegen zu benutzen."

Florence Nightingale

"Das einfachste
Konkrete koinzidiert mit dem
Absoluten."

Nikolaus von Kues

"Mein Herz ruht nicht,
weil die Liebe es mit solcher
Sehnsucht entflammt hat, daß es nur
in Dir ruhen kann."

Nikolaus von Kues

"Aus Liebe leben, das heißt,
unaufhörlich weiterfahren,
den Frieden, die Freude in alle
Herzen säend."

Therese von Lisieux

"People look for greatness
only in the extraordinary
and completely overlook
the wonder of the ordinary."

Ann Tatlock

"All you have to do is
write one true sentence.
Write the truest sentence
that you know."

Ernest Hemingway

"Everybody can be
great
because everybody can
serve."

Martin Luther King