#ace

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#art #creativity #freedom #love #peace

I am so, so alive. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#the-scorpio-races #inspirational

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#come #faith #feel #find #hope

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. ↗

— Jules Renard

#air #am #copy #exists #fashion

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#prejudice #race #self-esteem #inspirational

My mom and dad refused to believe that people who had grown up together in peace and friendship, had gone to the same schools, spoken the same language, and listened to the same music, could overnight be blinded by ethnic hatred and start to brutally kill one another. They simply didn't accept as true that less than two years of a multiparty system and competition for power could poison people's brains so much. ↗

— Savo Heleta

#friendship #peace #politics #power #war

People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#different #eyes #face #human #influence

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#inspiration #peace #inspirational

Don't step backward toward nothing, step forward toward something, better awkward steps forward, than coward steps backward. ↗

— Victoria Addino

#inspirational-quotes #positive-thinking #inspirational

We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we ourselves are truly about in the process. ↗

— Jason R. Thrift

#inspirational #love #philosophical #simple #inspirational