“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
Friday Reflection
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
Baruch Spinoza
Dalhousie University
Friday Reflection
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
Émile Zola
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
Mary Oliver
Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
Iris Murdoch
Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“You may delay, but time will not.”
Benjamin Franklin
Halifax Town Clock, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
T.S. Eliot
Halifax Public Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
C.S. Lewis
Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
Shelby Foote
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia