| "To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves." »Peter McWilliams |
| "Journal writing is a voyage to the interior." »Christina Baldwin |
| "From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it." »Daisy Bates |
| "The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit." »Marya Mannes |
| "Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life." »Margaret Fuller |
| "The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart." »Elizabeth Bowen |
| "In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace." »Louise Erdrich |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |