Quotes on Life

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Fail, fail again, fail better.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

Then you develop a kind of critical sense about what you write. You can tell when something is good, but it would be just as good in somebody else's work too. You want to hold out for those things only you can say.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.