"Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this human-wounded land: I was worth the while of living. Now my skill is dead. I should be."

-- Keri Hulme

#Artist Quotes #Land Quotes #Skills Quotes

“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.”

Source : Theodore Parker (1853). “Two Sermons Preached Before the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society in Boston: On the 14th and 21st of November, 1852, on Leaving Their Old and Entering a New Place of Worship”, p.58
“A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity.”
“â€¦I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.â€ (p.275)”
“Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.”
“I haven't done a lot in London. I think comedy over there is how it was over here years ago. There's tons of it, and they're better paid.”
“There's real economic costs to climate change - So, Superstorm Sandy led to billions of dollars in damages. The fires out in the west, 70 million dollars a day are being spent in fighting fires that have clearly been exacerbated by drought and climate change. So, people have pointed out the true dollars and cents cost of inaction on climate change.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.”
“Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.”

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