“Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.”
- KAHLIL GIBRAN (Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, and poet, 1883-1931)
“The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers — these are the masters of victory.”
- EDMUND BURKE (British statesman and philosopher, 1729-1797)
“Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.”
- ROSABETH MOSS KANTER (business professor, b. 1943)
“The sun does not forget a village just because it is small.”
- AFRICAN PROVERB
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
- ANAÏS NIN (French-Cuban author, 1903-1977)
“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”
- OSCAR WILDE (Irish writer and poet, 1854-1900)
“Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.”
- ROBERT ANTON WILSON (American author and polymath, 1932-2007)
“The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.”
- ALFRED ADLER (Austrian psychiatrist, 1870-1937)
“Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.”
- JOHN LUBBOCK (British biologist and politician, 1834-1913)
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
- ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955)
“There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits…”
- ROBERT SOUTHEY (English poet, 1774-1843)
“I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.”
- HENRI MATISSE (French artist, 1869-1954)
“It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.”
- BARUCH SPINOZA (Dutch philosopher, 1632-1677)
“There’s a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.”
- PEARL BAILEY (American entertainer, 1918-1990)
“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”
- CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (American journalist and poet, 1890-1957)
