"The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick."

-- Sophie Swetchine

#Happiness Quotes #Art Quotes #Sick Quotes

“The drives were nature's first provision: thinking was added later, to get us around the world's obstacles to them.”
“Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.”

Source : Willard Gaylin (1992). “The male ego”, Viking Pr
“I pride myself in taking care of my mind, body and soul, and not just through exercise.”
“I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of language in a narrow sense, that, perhaps, suggests a possibility for a rhythmic sensibility that enters poetry from outside of language.”
“And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.”
“People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.”
“Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.”
“In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.”

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