Kahlil Gibran
“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” ~.~ “A traveler I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.” ~.~ “Out of suffering have emerged the…
Jonathan Edwards
“Grace is but glory begun and glory is but grace perfected.” ~.~ “Seek not to grow in knowledge for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with other; but seek it for…
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.” ~.~
William James
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” ~.~ “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” ~.~ “Be…
William Faulkner
“(The writer) must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the verities and truths…
Pearl S. Buck
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.” “If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.”…
Jeremy Bentham
“Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure … they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make…
Antonio Machado
“Under all we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.” ~.~
Joseph Conrad
“Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art, as of life.” ~.~
Gautama Buddha
“We are what we think. All that we are, arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.” ~.~
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and Creation) there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid…
Serenity Prayer
God, give me grace to accept with Serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Living one…
James Earl Carter
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children….
Jackson Pollock
~.~ Art is coming face to face with yourself. ~.~