The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.
—Sitting Bull
In art the best is good enough.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
—Helen Hayes
Every artist was first an amateur.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
—E. B. White
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.
—Cathy Guisewite
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
—William Congreve
Our first and last love is self-love.
—Christian Nestell Bovee
All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
—Morihei Ueshiba
I am glad that my master lived in a one-story house when I began to traverse the early stages of love. For when he would speak of the wonders and the beauty of creation, I could not control my happiness and would commence a dance that most always resulted in a dive, head first, out of his window. And you only broke your big nose seventeen times.
—Hafiz
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
—Milan Kundera
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness; touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
—Fred Buechner
There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
—Don DeLillo
If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but thinking of the question that has been raised. One cannot speak about mystery; one must be seized by it.
—René Magritte