One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
A useless life is an early death.
Johann von Goethe
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Vincent Van Gogh
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Conscience is a man's compass.
I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.
Whoopi Goldberg
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
William Golding
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.
Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of.
Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
Emma Goldman
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man.
Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution --such call I good books.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.
The sun is but a morning star.
We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
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