Saskia

“Nothing sets you (or at least me) free creatively,” says the untamed film director and Monty Pythonite, Terry Gilliam, “like having a set of limitations to explore.”
― Pico Iyer, A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations

“There is an alternative: the unfashionable but powerful notion of letting time use you, approaching life not as an opportunity to implement your predetermined plans for success but as a matter of responding to the needs of your place and your moment in history.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a very tiny part of a vast and incredible universe….We’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery—not of nature, but of ourselves.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring

“Whatever is next for me, whatever the story of my life, the roots that must nourish it are here.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water