What do you want of your life?

RCC_6610, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I asked myself the question, "What do

you want of your life?" and I realized

with a start of recognition and terror,

"Exactly what  I have – but to be

commensurate, to handle it all better. 

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

Life

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; 
it is not a sum of what we have been but what we yearn to be.

José Ortega y Gasset

Works of art

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Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing to be so little appreciated as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and fairly judge them.

Rainer Maria Rilke