"It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work."

-- Joshua Reynolds

#Mind Quotes #May Quotes #Vain Quotes

“Do you still love me, Janie?' Janie stares at him, incredulous. 'Yes, of course! I don't say it lightly.' 'Say it lightly in my ear,' he demands. She smiles, rests her soft cheek on his scratchy one, and whispers it. 'I love you, Cabe.”

Source : Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.136, Simon and Schuster
“It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.”
“Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.”
“The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.”

Source : M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.257, Simon and Schuster
“Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.”
“The public school has become the established church of secular society.”
“I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.”
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

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