"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."

“But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience.”

“Get a dream, hold on to it and shoot for the sky.”

“To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.”

Source : Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.102, Open Road Media

“Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.”

Source : Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.2134, Ballantine Books

“Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.”

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“The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.”

“Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.”

Source : John Constable (1968). “Correspondence”

“When you struggle, you're going to be a little discouraged. But I never felt like I was overmatched.”