Quotes

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Sometimes you put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Modern man thinks he loses something – time – when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

Sometimes honesty has less to do with what we say or don’t say and more to do with whether we feel comfortable saying something in the first place. When I ask you if we’re honest with each other, what I’m really asking is could I text you at 3am and not freak you out? Could I tell you about how afraid I am to be intimate with someone and just sort of pretend it never happened? Could I tell you about how I want so deeply to love and be loved in return and then just let it recede into the past like every other past conversation we’ve had? Could we do that? Could we share those words with each other (because sometimes they get stuck in your throat and you have to tell someone) and then just let the tide take them back to sea? There are questions I want to ask you, but they are the ones where once asked they forever change the nature of our relationship. Could I ask them and somehow keep this thing we have going for us?

An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, a prisoner of style, a prisoner of a reputation, a prisoner of success.

The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist’s brush. As the eye functions as the brain’s sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview.

People are often reasonable,
illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind,people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true friends;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
be honest anyway.
What you spend years building ,
someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find sincerity and happiness,they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today,people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world your best anyway, you see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside. Quitting, however, lasts forever.

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

The same part of the brain responsible for anxiety and stress is also related to keeping us awake and alert.