FAVORITE QUOTES

"People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.

LOVE THEM ANYWAY.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.

DO GOOD ANYWAY.

If you are successful you win false friends and true enemies.

SUCCEED ANYWAY.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.

DO GOOD ANYWAY.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.

BE HONEST AND FRANK ANYWAY.

People favour underdogs but follow only top dogs.

FIGHT FOR SOME UNDERDOGS ANYWAY.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.

BUILD ANYWAY.

People really need help, but may attack you if you help them.

HELP PEOPLE ANYWAY.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.

GIVE THE WORLD THE BEST YOU'VE GOT ANYWAY.

Because it was never between you and them.

IT IS BETWEEN YOU AND GOD ANYWAY."

Keith Mckeith

" The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone.
The broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech. All great movements are popular movements, volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotional sentiments, stirred either by the cruel Goddess of Distress or by the firebrand of the word hurled among the masses; they are not the lemonade-like outpourings of the literary aesthetes and drawing-room heroes."
Adolf Hitler (from Mein Kampf)

 

"Talent is the ability to hit a target others cannot hit; genius is the ability to hit a target others cannot see."
Simone Weil

"The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of prison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up."
Mary Sarton

"The Creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated than the average person."
Frank Barron

"You have to accept what's bad about your work as well as what's good. Maybe they are one and the same."
Lillian Hellman

"Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship."
Igmar Bergman

DON'T GIVE UP THE WING FOR THE THING!

 

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
Thomas Edison

"The inexpressible is the only thing that is worth expressing."
Frederick Franck

"There is no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash though or perish."
Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“Don’t reach for the shiny apple, don’t taste of the bitter fruit. Seek only for justice, search always for the truth. Because all that you really have is your soul.”
From a song by Tracy Chapman

“It should not surprise us that creativity arises out of the pit of life rather than the high places. For creativity is the ability to put old material into new form. And it is only when old molds and old ways of doing things are forcibly broken up by need or suffering, compelling us to regroup, to rethink, to begin again, that the creative process starts to flow.”
Catherine Marshall

"A friend is someone who stays with you in the bad weather of life, guards you when you are off your guard, restrains your impetuosity, delights in your wholeness, forgives your failures, does not forsake you when others let you down."
Brennan Manning “ Sometimes I wonder if not all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”
C.S. Lewis