A lot of things are going right. More is going right than wrong, for sure.
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Globalization is a fact of economic life
Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can't you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you - unless you actually fail the test?
Art movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil. We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art. I also think that it gives artists something, a way of kind of processing. My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world. Hard times are really a fire under your ass to prioritize and think, "Okay, how can I challenge myself to put something in the world that wasn't there that can reach other folks and help them to process"?
But dear, don't be afraid of love it's only magic.