"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

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Source : "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing‎" by Larry Chang, (p. 55), 2006.

Emile Zola

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“The wisdom of God exceeds that of the wisest man, more than his wisdom exceeds that of a child. If a child were to conjecture how an army is to be formed in the day of battle--how a city is to be fortified, or a state governed--what chance has he to guess right? As little chance has the wisest man when he pretends to conjecture how the planets move in their courses, how the sea ebbs and flows, and how our minds act upon our bodies.”

Source : Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.235, Georg Olms Verlag
“Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.”

Source : George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
“You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.”
“Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.”
“Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.”
“You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.”
“Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.”
“I think this issue of climate change is truly important, and that it is a major tragedy how poorly it's been handled.”

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