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“Patience is also a form of action.” — Auguste Rodin
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”
— bell hooks
“At fifteen I set my heart on learning; at thirty, I stood firm; at forty, I had no more doubts; at fifty, I understood Heaven’s will.”
— Confucius
“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.”
— Lao Tzu
“And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: ‘Your seeds shall live in my body… and your joy is my joy.’”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Love is a verb. It’s an action. It’s the ability to sit in discomfort, to not run from pain, to communicate, to listen, to forgive, and to grow.”
—Common
“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it’s to imagine what is possible.”
— bell hooks
“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” — Robert Frost
“Freedom lies in being bold.” — Robert Frost
“The sea refuses no river. The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving. It saves on introductions and good-byes.” — Waking Life
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” — Henry David Thoreau
“One day, a little fish said to the others, ‘I’ve heard there’s something called the ocean.’ ‘The ocean?’ said they. ‘What nonsense! You’re in the ocean now.’ But the little fish was not satisfied and swam away to find it.” — Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
— Albert Einstein
“The smallest star twinkles as brilliantly as the largest.” — Leonardo da Vinci
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
— Michael Jordan
“Have no fear of perfection — you’ll never reach it.”
—Salvador Dalí
“I’ve come to trust that what I like is what works.”
— James Gunn
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
— Maya Angelou
“what I focus on is building and making and creating possibilities.”
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“It has always bothered me that I don’t paint like everyone else.” — Henri Matisse
“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Courage is essential for the artist. He must have the courage of his own sensations and convictions.”
— Henri Matisse
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.”
— Hans Hofmann
“You have to go to know. If you don’t go, you won’t know.”
— Quincy Jones
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
