“Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.”
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863), III: “L’artiste, homme du monde, homme des foules et enfant”
Variant: Genius is nothing but youth recaptured.
Source: The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
Le génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté, l'enfance douée maintenant, pour s'exprimer, d'organes virils et de l'esprit analytique qui lui permet d'ordonner la somme de matériaux involontairement amassée.
III: "L'artiste, homme du monde, homme des foules et enfant" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/L%E2%80%99Artiste%2C_homme_du_monde%2C_homme_des_foules_et_enfant
Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863)
“Financial recovery must be preceded by moral recovery.”
Attributed to Tomas Bata at tomasbata.com, 2015
Attributed to Tomas Bata
“Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.”
New York Times, April 28, 1985; as quoted in A Speaker's Treasury of Quotations by Michael C. Thomsett and Linda Rose Thomsett (McFarland, 2009), p. 111 https://books.google.it/books?id=igYyBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA111.
“Mysticism is the search for and recovery of our oneness with God.”
Lecture discussing esoteric Christian mysticism
Mysticism
“Things past recovery
Are hardly cured with exclamations.”
Barabas, Act I, scene ii
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)
“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.”
“A thoroughly readable and rich introduction to…the process of recovery from alcoholism.”
New England Journal of Medicine, review of Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind.
