What did Gerald Brenan mean by: We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. - Gerald Brenan Copy
+ Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gerald Brenan, Age, Death, War, 0 - Gerald Brenan
+ Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gerald Brenan, Age, Aging, 0 - Gerald Brenan
+ Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gerald Brenan, Opinion, Wisdom, 0 - Gerald Brenan
+ Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gerald Brenan, Boredom, Boring, Oneself, 0 - Gerald Brenan
+ Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gerald Brenan, Artist, 0 - Gerald Brenan
+ The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gerald Brenan, Age, Literature, Writing, 0 - Gerald Brenan
+ In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gerald Brenan, Anniversary, Husband, Wedding, 0 - Gerald Brenan
Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly. - Mata Amritanandamayi Spiritual leader and humanitarian · India
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness. - Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Salon hostess · France
I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun. - Mata Hari Dancer and courtesan · Netherlands
Ballet in the air… Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? - Max Muller Philologist · Germany
