The only realism in art is of the imagination.
Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.
There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.
Nothing good is ever easy. Or worth it.
Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.
Girlfriends' code. What's discussed with girlfriends stays with girlfriends.
Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. ’Tis obvious that fighting is your skill.
There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature.
You need to be able to agree from time to time if we're going to get anywhere. Once you have started a civil dialogue, it's a much smoother road to compromise. The key thing to remember is it's a daily practice.
Pursuits become habits.
No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e. g. , does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint?). What's more, artists need effective techniques for using those tools. Likewise, to express ourselves skillfully with maximum efficiency and minimum effort, we need to investigate the most effective ways of using the mind and body since, in the end, they are the only "tools" we truly possess in life.