"A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability..."

-- Robert Genn

#Curiosity Quotes #Ability Quotes #Composition Quotes

“Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.”
“As I see it, creative achievement is the very heart of the human enterprise... The destiny of man, of all men and of each man, is that he is condemned to invent what he will be - condemned if he is fearful but blessed if he welcomes the great adventure. We are responsible in the last analysis, not simply for what we are, but for what we will become; and that is a source of either high excitement or distress.”
“I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.”
“Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.”
“I have no ambition. I just have a very loving duty given to me in my spiritual heritage of the Himalayan Masters who have passed down this duty from generation to generation, perhaps for thousands of generations: The world has misery, the world has suffering. Do what you can to reduce the pain. Do what you can to soothe people's minds. Don't just counsel, Mr. Therapist ... console.”
“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”

Source : Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.94, Hachette UK
“The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!”
“We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.”

Source : "Learning to smile" by Nick Green, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2007.

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