"Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule."

-- Edmund Spenser

#Example Quotes #Doctrine Quotes #Gracious Quotes

“They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.”
“We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.”

Source : Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.
“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.”

Source : "Youth". Essay by Samuel Ullman, www.beliefnet.com. 1920.
“I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy.”
“O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!”
“The more the level of insecurity is reduced, the more the level of faith will grow.”

Source : Victor Manuel Rivera (2010). “In Search of True Freedom”, p.47, Xulon Press
“My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.”

Source : "Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expressio". Book by Jeffery Howe, 2001.
“The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others.”

Source : Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.117, Workman Publishing

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