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. ~.~
Stephen King
In his book, On Writing – A Memoir Of The Craft, Stephen King writes, “… I stopped in the lobby to thank the concierge again for letting me use Mr. Kipling’s beautiful desk. “I’m so…
Bagger Vance
Now play the game … your game … the one that only you was meant to play … the one that was given to you when you come into this world. ~.~
Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown…
Carl Jung
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. ~.~