Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

Ramakrishna

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

Vernor Vinge

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

Barbara Feldon

You can lease the peace of mind You bought a mask, I put it on. You never thought to ask me If I wear it when you're gone

Sisters Of Mercy

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

Nathaniel Branden

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Be patient, Ophelia.Love,Hamlet

Kurt Vonnegut

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Lorna Luft

Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

Germaine Greer

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Robert Frost