‘What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.’
- Henry David Thoreau
‘What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.’
- Henry David Thoreau
‘Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.’
- Erica Jong
‘We artists! We moon-struck and God-struck ones! We death-silent, untiring wanderers on heights which we do not see as heights, but as our plains, as our places of safety!’
- Friedrich Nietzsche
‘Talent for talent’s sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.’
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.’
- Victor Hugo
‘After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.’
- Albert Einstein
‘When you haven’t got a lot all that you got is a lot’
- Barry Adamson
‘The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.’
- Samuel Smiles
‘The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.’
- Charles R. Swindoll
‘Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone / but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.’
- Bette Davis