The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.