THE ARTIST enriches the soul of humanity.
The artist delights people with
A thousand different shades of feeling.
I INVENT NOTHING, I REDISCOVER.
WHERE DID I LEARN TO UNDESTAND SCULPTURE? IN THE WOODS by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools. AUGUSTE RODIN, RAM DASS AUGUST RODIN
I CAN DO NOTHING for you but work on myself. you can do nothing for me but work on yourself. RAM DASS
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1850-1894 “Treasure Island”.
WE ARE ALL TRAVELERS in the wilderness of this world and the best we can find in our travels is an honest fried.
DON’T JUDGE EACH DAY BY THE HARVEST YOU REAP BUT BY THE SEEDS THAT YOU PLANT.
THE PERSON who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
YOU CAN GIVE WITHOUT LOVING BUT YOU CAN NEVER LOVE WITHOUT GIVING.
LIKE A BIRD SINGING IN THE RAIN LET GRATEFUL MEMORIES SURVIVE IN TIME OF SORROW.
MAKE up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
BE WHAT YOU ARE AND BECOME WHAT YOU ARE CAPABLE OF BECOMING.
EVERYDAY COURAGE has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.
KEEP BUSY AT SOMETHING: A BUSY PERSON NEVER HAS TIME TO BE UNHAPPY.
THE BOLD may not live long, BUT THE TIMID never live at all.
SINCE HATE POISONS THE SOUL, don’t cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
A FRIEND is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.
AN AIM IN LIFE IS THE ONLY FORTUNE WORTH FINDING.
KEEP YOUR FEARS TO YOURSELF BUT SHARE YOUR COURAGE WITH OTHERS.
COMPROMISE IS THE BEST AND CHEAPEST LAWYER.
WINE IS BOTTLED POETRY.
IT IS NOT SO MUCH FOR ITS BEAUTY that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
THERE IS NOTHING BUT GOD’S grace. WE WALK UPON IT; WE BREATHE IT; WE LIVE AND DIE BY IT; IT MAKES THE NAILS AND AXLES OF THE UNIVERSE.
HE WHO SOWS HURRY REAPS INDIGESTION.
THE SPIRIT OF DELIGHT COMES IN SMALL WAYS.
THE DIFFICULTY is not to write, but to write what you mean.
THE PRICE we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
GIVE US GRACE and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare us to our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us te strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.
THE SAINTS ARE THE SINNERS WHO KEEP ON TRYING.
I TRAVEL not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
TO BE WHAT WE ARE and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
THAT MAN IS A SUCCESS who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
THE TRUE WISDOM is to be always seasonable and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.
TO MISS THE JOY IS TO MISS EVERYTHING.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURES ARE NOT THOSE WE GO TO SEEK.
I HAVE RESOLVED that from this day on I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
OUR BUSINESS in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in good spirits.
BEING HAPPY enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
THE WORLD HAS NO ROOM FOR COWARDS. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.
SAINT AUGUSTINE 354 AD-430 AD. “CONFESSIONS” ”
TAKE care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
THERE IS NO SAINT WITHOUT A PAST, NO SINNER WITHOUT A FUTURE.
TO FALL IN LOVE WITH GOD is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
BECAUE GOD has made us for himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
A CHRISTIAN IS: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which christ speaks and a hand through which Christ helps.
HOPE has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. anger at the way things are and courage to see they do not remain as they are.
IF GOD SEEMS SLOW in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.
FAITH is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
THE GREATEST KINDNESS one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
WHAT DOES LOVE LOOK LIKE? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
CURSED IS EVERYONE who places his hope in changing the nature of man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: THERE ARE NO FOREIGN LANDS. IT IS THE TRAVELER WHO IS FOREIGN.
SAINT AUGUSTINE: THE TRUTH IS LIKE A LION; you don’t have to defend it. let it loose; it will defend itself.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: MAKE UP YOUR MIND TO BE HAPPY.
THE CRUELEST LIES ARE OFTEN TOLD IN SILENCE.