"There are only two reasons that anybody does something for 50 years. You've got to believe in what you are doing and love the art form. I love harmony-tight, close harmony."

-- Bill Gaither

#Art Quotes #Believe Quotes #Years Quotes

“Don't eat till you're full, eat till you're tired.”
“A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter can erase some of their past efforts, we cannot. We are stuck with what we have lived through. The trick is to finish it with a sense of design and a flourish rather than to patch up the holes or merely to add new patches to it.”
“A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 19, 2012
“To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.”
“Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.”
“It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.”

Source : Christmas Humphreys (2012). “Exploring Buddhism”, p.74, Routledge
“We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.”
“The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of time and of development.... One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair.”

Source : Lilian Whiting (1896). “The World Beautiful”

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