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…
Tag: Inspiration
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget…
Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval. The older…
Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’ People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Not to live for the day, that would…
The first rule of holes: when you’re in one, stop digging. The thing is this: You got to have fun while you’re fightin’ for freedom, ’cause you don’t always win. It is possible to read…
Your thorns are the best part of you. Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. The cure for loneliness is solitude. Marianne was one of America’s foremost poets and often…
Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me. The Nobel Prize…
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. The secret of…
