William F. Lynch famous quotes

One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.
-- William F. Lynch

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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.