Monday, November 9, 2009

Resonating with White

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

E.B. White made this remark. E.B. White, Pulitzer Prizer winner and author of such children's classics as Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little. Interesting.

I've loved this quote from the first time I heard it from a friend in college. It so captures the pull, the tension I feel so often in my life.