"Our way is not soft grass; it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun."

-- Ruth Westheimer

#Rocks Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Way Quotes

“Forgiveness does not mean excusing.”
“All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.”

Source : "On my painting". Republished text of Beckmann's public speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art' in London, July 21, 1938.
“I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.”
“One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.”
“If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.”
“As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.”
“Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.”
“The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.”

Source : John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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