Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.
EURIPIDES
Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.
Sri Chinmoy
The first thing that you lose on a diet is brain mass.
Moran Margaret Cho
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists, as the mother can love the unborn child.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
A. W. Tozer
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.
Alan Watts
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.
Mary Pickford
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
Anthony Burgess
Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.
Clifford Lee Burton
Embla lies with each thing, Ask looks and knows. Understanding without explanation they depart and separate.
John Carder Bush
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
Laura Welch Bush