Art Quotes
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.Hilton Krame
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.Mother Teresa
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
Having a thirteen - Year - Old in the family is like having a general - Admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen - Agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.Max Lerne
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
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.John Ruskin
Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.Yoshida Kenko
Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.Miguel de Cervantes
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.Michel de Montaigne
Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.W. T. Ussery
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.Bernard Avishai
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.Judy Garland
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.Mohammed Negui
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.Marcus Garvey
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.Chief Seattle
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.Alvin Toffle
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.Dalai Llama
There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five - Cent nickel.Franklin P. Adams
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.John Kenneth Galbraith
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.James E. Faust
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.Henry M. Wriston
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.Unknown
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.Vilhjlmur Stefnsson
The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.Mohammed Ali
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.Michelangelo Buonarroti
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.Malcolm Boyd
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.Henry Van Dyke
None of us is as smart as all of us.Phil Condit
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?William Hart Coleridge
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.Johann von Goethe
