"He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'"

-- Irving Stone

#Self Quotes #Design Quotes #Canvas Quotes

“I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.”
“For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.”
“Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was.”
“We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.”
“Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.”
“I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.”
“Love is sacred. Beauty is sacred. Flowers are sacred. Birds are sacred. And sacredness brings the perfume of love and compassion. Therefore love and compassion is the perfume of sacredness. It sounds rather poetic, but...God IS poetry.”
“Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in Godâ€™s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.”

Source : Jean Vanier (2013). “The Heart of L'Arche: A spirituality for every day”, p.33, SPCK

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