Arlene

“You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“O Life,
How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough,
Enough of life in so much! — here's a cause
For rupture; — herein we must break with Life,
Or be ourselves unworthy; here we are wronged,
Maimed, spoiled for aspiration: farewell Life!'
— And so, as froward babes, we hide our eyes
And think all ended. — Then, Life calls to us
In some transformed, apocryphal, new voice,
Above us, or below us, or around . .
Perhaps we name it Nature's voice, or Love's,
Tricking ourselves, because we are more ashamed
To own our compensations than our griefs:
Still, Life's voice! — still, we make our peace with Life.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems