The world is always in movement.
—V. S. Naipaul
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
—John Ruskin
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
—e. e. cummings
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
—Winston Churchill
Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
—Grandma Moses
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
—John Dewey
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
—René Magritte
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
—Anatole France
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
—W. Clement Stone
I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
—W. C. Fields
I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add.
—Steven Wright
If you wished to be loved, love.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
—George Bernard Shaw
You need to stop feeling sorry for yourself. I don't say this as a condemnation–I need regular reminders to stop feeling sorry for myself too. I'm going to address you bluntly, but it's a directness that rises from my compassion for you, not my judgement of you. Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.
—Cheryl Strayed in Tiny Beautiful Things
This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can't put it all back together again. What you do is the only thing that you can do: you take two things that ought to be together and you put them back together. Two things, not all things! That's the way the work has to go. You make connections in your work… That's what we do, we people who make things. If it's a stool or a film or a poem or an essay or a novel or a musical composition, it's all about that. Finding how it fits together and fitting it together.
—Wendell Berry