"I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself."

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Source : Dewey F. Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Darrel Sewell, Rae Alexander-Minter, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1991). “Henry Ossawa Tanner”

Henry Ossawa Tanner

#Pain Quotes #Heart Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.”
“I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.”

Source : Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.
“If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?”
“We all believe we have found the finest of diktat that applies our perfect future, but do we believe the world needs referees.”
“When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.”
“Isn't it better to regret things you've done, than regret things you've never even tried?”
“When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.”
“Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.”

Source : Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.190, Univ of California Press

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