“When you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too.”
-Denzel Washington, The Equalizer
Tag Quotes
La inspiración existe, pero tiene que encontrarte trabajando. (Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.)
-Pablo Picasso, posthumously
Villasante, Tomás R., Las ciudades hablan: identidades y movimientos sociales en seis metrópolis latinoamericanas. p. 264 (1994)
“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” –James Agate
“Some people want to watch the world burn; but, the truly cynical bring a bag of marshmallows and a pointed stick.”
-Masercot, “Think-Things that Follow No Pattern,” Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
“Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. ”
-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“There’s nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”
-Johann Sebastian Bach
This is what it means to create: not to make something out of nothing, but to make order out of chaos. A creative scientist or historian does not make up facts but orders facts; he sees connections between them rather than seeing them as random data.
A creative writer does not make up new words but arranges familiar words in patterns which say something fresh to us.
-Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People (51, 52).
Thanks to Confessions of an Irish Procrastinator for nominating me for quotes. I only like to share one, myself; but thanks for shouting out. 🙂
“When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.”
-Probably Lolly Daskal
We don’t get what we wish for, we get what we fight for. By ourselves. In spite of numerous obstacles.
-Cristian Mihai, “You’ve got to save yourself“
Chel Owens 