Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-Stephen R. Covey
Art does not need to be deep. If I like a subject, I paint it. If I like a color, I use it.
Art is a way of expressing life’s complexities AND simplicities.
Tabitha Bianca Brown
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them. I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again. I grind them and grind them until they don’t exist.
Ender’s Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
-Douglas Adams
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
-George Carlin
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are
but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do
is inconceivable.”
- Joseph Addison
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Faring thee well now
Let your life proceed by its own designs
Nothing to tell now
Let the words be yours, I’m done with mine.”
John Barlow, “Cassidy” (Grateful Dead)
It doesn’t matter what mistakes were made in the painting; it doesn’t matter how late we stayed awake thinking that we could have done it better. It’s done and it’s ours: all of the splotches and lines, the cracks in the paint from our very first experiments in living. And we still don’t know what it means.
Lyssarian Joy, “Possibly Unfinished”
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893, spoken by the character Lord Illingworth
