post-nap: the struggle is real

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us.”
~Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco

“What strange creatures brothers are!”
~Jane Austen

“Most of the things we need to be alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.”
~Mark Buchanan

“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery–it’s the sincerest form of learning.”
~George Bernard Shaw

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
~The Rambler, Samuel Johnson

“…and she loved a little boy very, very much–even more than she loved herself.”
~ The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein

“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask, ‘What if I fall?’
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
~Erin Hanson