Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat more, to set our foundations depper and reach higher toward the sky. If sadness is what makes us… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Surely some of you have felt the same way that I do. You have turned sullenly from those thousands of glowing, perfect teeth lighting the American landscape and slouched to the darkness—the half-lighted room, the twilight forest, the empty café.… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat more, to… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
“To desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inauthentic.” — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
“To be fake in this dreamy universe is to believe in actual authenticity and behave accordingly, and to be in tune with the real… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies,… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Do not perceive through overly judgmental eyes, prone to damnation. If you do, you are constrained to witness nothing but your notion of perfection,… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Surely some of you have felt the same way that I do. You have turned sullenly from those thousands of glowing, perfect teeth lighting… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
