Quotes from the Classics: January

There's something about classic literature - timeless, romantic, universal, human. Each month, I will post quotes from the likes of Austen, Wilde, Dickens, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald and many others. Here are some words that will inspire you as you kick off the new year!

Champagne, ornaments, and sparkler by Ioana Motoc

 
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
 

 
It had to be found, the pristine source in one’s own self, it had to be possessed! Everything else was searching, was a detour, was getting lost.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
 

 
And what is it to work with love? ...It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
 

 
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
 

 
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
— Rumi
 

Love in all things,

April Eileen

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