"A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing."

-- William Dobell

#Artist Quotes #Faithful Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.”
“The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.”

Source : Joni Eareckson Tada, Steven Estes (1997). “When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty”, p.137, Harper Collins
“I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.”
“Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.”
“The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it through millions of centuries. It does not surrender so easily to weaklings like you and me.”
“Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of God's word to our own time and our contemporary situation.”
“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”
“A key ingredient to achieving your goals is to make sure your goals are totally congruent with who you are as a person. Your head and hearts desire must match. It's such an important step in goal achievement and if we miss it, we can end up travelling a long way down the wrong path!”

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