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13d33cb	You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life." --	philosophy cycling	Susan Vreeland
8322799	Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.		Susan Vreeland
e6452ba	In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.		Susan Vreeland
f211fb3	If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.		Susan Vreeland
eebc497	A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.		Susan Vreeland
a8623f1	Things that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too.		Susan Vreeland
dc2613c	He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.		Susan Vreeland
0957c24	What the world calls failure, I call learning.		Susan Vreeland
af0b510	Work is love made plain, whether man's work or woman's work.	work	Susan Vreeland
c3d8721	No matter where life takes you,' she said, 'the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground.		Susan Vreeland
665287a	She sat very still, listening to a stream gurgling, the breeze soughing through upper branches, the melodious kloo-klack of ravens, the nyeep-nyeep of nuthatches - all sounds chokingly beautiful. She felt she could hear the cool clean breath of growing things - fern fronds, maple leaves, white trillium petals, tree trunks, each in its rightful place.		Susan Vreeland
24caa94	I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible -- determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her should..	quote-the-passion-of-artemisia	Susan Vreeland
5e5e385	How love builds itself unconsciously, he thought, out of the momentous ordinary.		Susan Vreeland
b313219	What could she possibly have done that was so heinous as to earn her a lifetime of self-mortification? No one short of a tyrant deserved such unremitting agony. I cried there with her, for her, for Eve, for sorrows past, for sorrows yet to come. I put my pencil away. It was wrong to draw live pain. If there had been an artist at Bethany, it would have been wrong to intrude his chalk or charcoal on Mary Magdalene's weeping as she washed Jesu..	pain sorrow women mary-magdalene	Susan Vreeland
feb184e	In the end, it's only the moments that we have.		Susan Vreeland
873a96b	I've come to think that if doing something simple or silly can give a person pleasure, then, by God, do it		Susan Vreeland
0183a31	Maybe that's what love was -- walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other.		Susan Vreeland
649cf92	Love is so easily bruised by the necessity of making choices.	love	Susan Vreeland
f01d9ab	People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her.		Susan Vreeland
ce81967	Amar es ponerse al cuello el nudo corredizo de la ilusion; adorar a alguien mientras pareces asfixiarte. Pero incluso el amor no correspondido, el amor fugaz, es mejor que nada.	novel	Susan Vreeland
0cb50d0	Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.		Susan Vreeland
555894d	Allowing beauty a place in the soul was a powerful antidote to the stress and strain of mortal life.		Susan Vreeland
12fada7	The winsome lilt of Digna humming in the garden. Her knowing, almost teasing look, not quite a smile, when she knew she had the upper hand about something, and his willing acquiescence. Her coaxing in the dark next to him - What was your favorite part of the day? - to which he'd always say, because he always thought it - now, touching you. He'd feel the lump of truth form in his throat, the swell of love in his loins. And afterward, the pea..		Susan Vreeland
77d6d05	No matter where life takes you...the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find goodness in it.		Susan Vreeland
2493cd7	He had a thought that amused him. "Figures, still life, landscape, AND an animal! Zola, eat your hat!" he bellowed."		susan vreeland
876e527	At this stage of life, he'd better just lean into love, because if he fell, he feared he might break a hip.		Susan Vreeland
a1370e4	The painting showed she did not yet know that lives end abruptly, that much of living is repetition and separation, that buttons forever need re-sewing no matter how ferociously one works the thread, that nice things almost happen.		Susan Vreeland
952965e	No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.	focus obsession	Susan Vreeland
9d6dcb5	Now he knew . . . that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.		Susan Vreeland
95d5983	If you want to preach, young man, you ought to wear some kind of clerical costume so people would be warned. In my mind, there are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. I hate le miserabilisme. I'm in the shining business, not the darkening business.		Susan Vreeland
4541ade	She thought of all the people in all the paintings she had seen that day, not just Father's, in all the paintings of the world, in fact. Their eyes, the particular turn of a head, their loneliness or suffering or grief was borrowed by an artist to be seen by other people throughout the years who would never see them face to face. People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they ..	life painting	Susan Vreeland
06fe839	Reproducing nature slavishly is not art.		Susan Vreeland
08fa28d	A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness.		Susan Vreeland
3a6f939	Train yourselves by seeking and acknowledging beauty moment by moment every day of your lives," he told them. "Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color."	color	Susan Vreeland
64fe68c	If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal	joy life love lisette-s-list susan-vreeland nun painting france paris	Susan Vreeland
f784e24	Find some beauty along the way.		Susan Vreeland
3fc5de2	Page 357 - "if the mountain was smooth, you couldn't climb it."		Susan Vreeland
bbe202d	Surely a woman, not just a painter, needs a place where she can nurture her individuality, where she can become. Pascal		Susan Vreeland
1679f61	If a person loves something above all else, if he values the work of his heart and hands, then he should naturally, without hesitation, pour into it his whole soul, undivided and pure. Great art demands nothing less.	work love creativity creation	Susan Vreeland
d86ef1b	Things will change, Father. They must. And art can help create the change.	change	Susan Vreeland
2e5c6d6	It's better to have a hunger and appreciation for beauty than to be merely beautiful. In the end, life is richer that way. She may learn that.	beauty art	Susan Vreeland
39010de	Think of 'a Dieu,' madame. It's the Provencal way to wish a person to be with God when you meet him as well as when you leave him.		Susan Vreeland
dc22a02	How easily a parent's motive could be misconstrued by an injured child.		Susan Vreeland
16d5c39	Just think. We're whizzing through the universe.	universe the-passion-of-artemisia space	Susan Vreeland

13d33cb

You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life." --

philosophy cycling

Susan Vreeland

8322799

Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.

Susan Vreeland

e6452ba

In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.

Susan Vreeland

f211fb3

If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.

Susan Vreeland

eebc497

A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.

Susan Vreeland

a8623f1

Things that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too.

Susan Vreeland

dc2613c

He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.

Susan Vreeland

0957c24

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

Susan Vreeland

af0b510

Work is love made plain, whether man's work or woman's work.

work

Susan Vreeland

c3d8721

No matter where life takes you,' she said, 'the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground.

Susan Vreeland

665287a

She sat very still, listening to a stream gurgling, the breeze soughing through upper branches, the melodious kloo-klack of ravens, the nyeep-nyeep of nuthatches - all sounds chokingly beautiful. She felt she could hear the cool clean breath of growing things - fern fronds, maple leaves, white trillium petals, tree trunks, each in its rightful place.

Susan Vreeland

24caa94

I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible -- determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her should..

quote-the-passion-of-artemisia

Susan Vreeland

5e5e385

How love builds itself unconsciously, he thought, out of the momentous ordinary.

Susan Vreeland

b313219

What could she possibly have done that was so heinous as to earn her a lifetime of self-mortification? No one short of a tyrant deserved such unremitting agony. I cried there with her, for her, for Eve, for sorrows past, for sorrows yet to come. I put my pencil away. It was wrong to draw live pain. If there had been an artist at Bethany, it would have been wrong to intrude his chalk or charcoal on Mary Magdalene's weeping as she washed Jesu..

pain sorrow women mary-magdalene

Susan Vreeland

feb184e

In the end, it's only the moments that we have.

Susan Vreeland

873a96b

I've come to think that if doing something simple or silly can give a person pleasure, then, by God, do it

Susan Vreeland

0183a31

Maybe that's what love was -- walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other.

Susan Vreeland

649cf92

Love is so easily bruised by the necessity of making choices.

love

Susan Vreeland

f01d9ab

People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her.

Susan Vreeland

ce81967

Amar es ponerse al cuello el nudo corredizo de la ilusion; adorar a alguien mientras pareces asfixiarte. Pero incluso el amor no correspondido, el amor fugaz, es mejor que nada.

novel

Susan Vreeland

0cb50d0

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

Susan Vreeland

555894d

Allowing beauty a place in the soul was a powerful antidote to the stress and strain of mortal life.

Susan Vreeland

12fada7

The winsome lilt of Digna humming in the garden. Her knowing, almost teasing look, not quite a smile, when she knew she had the upper hand about something, and his willing acquiescence. Her coaxing in the dark next to him - What was your favorite part of the day? - to which he'd always say, because he always thought it - now, touching you. He'd feel the lump of truth form in his throat, the swell of love in his loins. And afterward, the pea..

Susan Vreeland

77d6d05

No matter where life takes you...the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find goodness in it.

Susan Vreeland

2493cd7

He had a thought that amused him. "Figures, still life, landscape, AND an animal! Zola, eat your hat!" he bellowed."

susan vreeland

876e527

At this stage of life, he'd better just lean into love, because if he fell, he feared he might break a hip.

Susan Vreeland

a1370e4

The painting showed she did not yet know that lives end abruptly, that much of living is repetition and separation, that buttons forever need re-sewing no matter how ferociously one works the thread, that nice things almost happen.

Susan Vreeland

952965e

No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.

focus obsession

Susan Vreeland

9d6dcb5

Now he knew . . . that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.

Susan Vreeland

95d5983

If you want to preach, young man, you ought to wear some kind of clerical costume so people would be warned. In my mind, there are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. I hate le miserabilisme. I'm in the shining business, not the darkening business.

Susan Vreeland

4541ade

She thought of all the people in all the paintings she had seen that day, not just Father's, in all the paintings of the world, in fact. Their eyes, the particular turn of a head, their loneliness or suffering or grief was borrowed by an artist to be seen by other people throughout the years who would never see them face to face. People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they ..

life painting

Susan Vreeland

06fe839

Reproducing nature slavishly is not art.

Susan Vreeland

08fa28d

A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness.

Susan Vreeland

3a6f939

Train yourselves by seeking and acknowledging beauty moment by moment every day of your lives," he told them. "Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color."

color

Susan Vreeland

64fe68c

If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal

joy life love lisette-s-list susan-vreeland nun painting france paris

Susan Vreeland

f784e24

Find some beauty along the way.

Susan Vreeland

3fc5de2

Page 357 - "if the mountain was smooth, you couldn't climb it."

Susan Vreeland

bbe202d

Surely a woman, not just a painter, needs a place where she can nurture her individuality, where she can become. Pascal

Susan Vreeland

1679f61

If a person loves something above all else, if he values the work of his heart and hands, then he should naturally, without hesitation, pour into it his whole soul, undivided and pure. Great art demands nothing less.

work love creativity creation