Art Quotes
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.Honore De Balzac
Dreams are wishes your heart makes.American Prove
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.William Ralph Inge
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand Russell
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.Victor Hugo
It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.Laurence J. Pete
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart mark and avoid him.Cicero
The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.Mahatma Gandhi
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.Susanne Lange
He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.Siddha Nagarjuna
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.Susan Sontag
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.William Paley
We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.Jeff Warne
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.Johnson
Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth.The Clown Prince of Darkness, corresponsdence
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.William Butler Yeats
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.Leo Tolstoy
Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.Charles McCabe
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.Dorothy Rothschild Parke
To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it - - who can say this is not greatness.William Makepeace Thackeray
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.David Richerby
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.Socrates, Apology, (Plato)
No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day being an idiot.Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.George Santayana
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.Plato
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.Hendrik W. Van Loon
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)
All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer.Sir Robert Owen
