It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have…
Tag: Inspiration
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began…
The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea. Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that…
The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn’t get mad. She weaves and repairs it. Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like…
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world. Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything. Sports do not build character. They…
My hope rises when I find that the inner heart of a human being may remain pure, notwithstanding some corruption of the outer coverings. For what is done or learned by one class of women…
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. Anger is energizing. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. The future depends entirely on what each…
Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul. To confer the gift of drawing, we must…
