quotes

“The mistake you make is trying to figure it out.” Tennessee Williams

“Talent is long patience.” Gustave Flaubert

“An artist is paid for his vision, not his reporting.” Tom Lynch

“Ideas are like strawberries, they need to bloom and fade and get to be mature.” unknown

“Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.” Fortune cookie

“The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” John Milton (1608-1674), Paradise Lost

“We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books . It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranges and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations.” Albert Einstein

“I place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)

“In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, educator and author (1902-2001)

“Hope, is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.” Vaclav Havel

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” Rosalynn Carter

“One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.” Edward B. Butler”

“A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.” Erasmus

“Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.” Luther Burbank, horticulturist (1849-1926)

“I always knew that one day I would take this road but yesterday I did not know today would be the day.” Nagarjuna

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” Garson Kanin

“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.” G.K. Chesterton, essayist and novelist (1874-1936)

“The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” Henry Miller

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” Ernest Hemingway

“Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.” Edward Gorey

“It is your soul's duty to be loyal to your desires.” Rebecca West

“Art is the signature of a civilization.” Beverly Sills