"Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the band, artist, writer, producer, front man. We're the whole thing. You develop, it's not smugness, but this self-reliance, that can limit your creativity. When you're willing and able to invite others into it, you wind up getting a piece of work that's bigger and better than anything you ever imagined it could be.”
“Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make sure that everyone who joins fully understands his duties and obligations and is willing, in Christ's strength, to undertake them.”
“Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.”

Source : Dae Jung Kim (2004). “The 21st century and the Korean people: selected speeches of Kim Dae-jung, 1998-2004”
“I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.”
“When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.”
“Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.”

Source : Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”
“Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1872). “Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel”, p.56
“In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.”

Source : Kristina Mcmorris (2012). “Bridge of Scarlet Leaves”, p.82, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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