It All Goes On

I had three days in a row at home this week. I haven’t had three day in a row at home for so long. It was really lovely, although it went pretty quickly. I had to do thesis work, but currenly that work is kind of relaxing. It doesn’t require running around and not being still. I got a good 3days before life gets hectic again. I have the feeling life is going to be hectic and hard this year. These are some Oscar Wilde quotes to get me through the year when it feels overwhelming and crazy and not still. 

1) Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. (For when I don’t want to get up, or when I am hungover).

2) The basis of optimism is sheer terror. (For when I am scared but am required to be positive).

3) We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. (So we got to love the gutter and the stars).   

4) You can never be overdressed or overeducated. (For when I want to look fabulous or when I don’t want to study).

5) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. (For when I want romance but lacking a partner).  

6) “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” (This speaks for itself)

7) “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” (Maybe sometimes we need to judge ourselves like the books, and not on some moral or immoral basis) 

8) “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”  (A bit of funny self-indulgence to get me through this journey, and my long train trips).  

9) It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” (To remind myself it is wonderful to read for pleasure, as well as for work).

10) The heart was meant to be broken (Because others hurt us and we hurt them).

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