"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Art Quotes #Practice Quotes #Follow Your Dreams Quotes

“It's a shame you know," he called over his shoulder. "What's a shame?" Duncan asked. "That I didn't capture her first." Duncan smiled. "Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you.”
“Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.”
“We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.”
“she is no longer the beautiful woman she was. she sends photos of herself sitting upon a rock by the ocean alone and damned. I could have had her once. I wonder if she thinks I could have saved her?”
“As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.”
“It is a great thing to be a really good forgiver.”
“Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story youâ€™ve been listening to - all the pieces of music youâ€™ve ever heard.”

Source : "Brian Eno: Success ruins artists". Interview with Davide Mitchell, www.salon.com. October 2, 2011.
“This whole world is full of God!”

Source : Angela (of Foligno) (1909). “The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno”

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