"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.
There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good,
and we must hunger after them."
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
Stoic philosophers say we should content ourselves with what is, and stop hankering after what we can't have. But I think George Eliot has the right of it.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore this Botticelli is fantastic. If he'd been content with what was before his eyes, we'd probably have paintings of cabbages.
"Dream it, and do it!"
ReplyDeleteA saying from the Hippie era,...where else?
They were like that.