"Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person."

-- Albert Ellis

#Failure Quotes #Intrinsic Value Quotes #Persons Quotes

“The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.”

Source : George Grosz, Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde (1987). “Art Is in Danger”
“My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.”

Source : Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.69, I.B. Tauris
“Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?”
“I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.”
“I felt like the big geek in high school. And I still feel like a big geek.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it for a snake. When we think that the rope is a snake, we are scared, but once we see that we are looking at a rope, our fear dissipates. We have been deluded by our thoughts. Likewise, mentally fabricating self and others, we generate attachment and aversion.”
“Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.”

Source : William Wycherley, Marvin T. Herrick (1970). “The Country Wife”, p.47, Barron's Educational Series
“The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.”

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