#asks

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain. ↗

— Robert Greene

#nature

I wish everyday could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks. ↗

— R.J. Palacio

#judgement #masks #rj-palacio #wonder #judgement

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ↗

— Joey Adams

#asks #expensive #lot #nothing #psychiatrist

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. ↗

— James Allen

#bless #bring #deeds #farmer #forth

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#developed #faces #like #masks #own

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#action #asks #balance #himself #insane

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#become #begin #experience #illuminate #key

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#anything #asks #beautiful #beauty #better

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#daily work #dead #effort #enthusiasm #even

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#cannot #fear #know #live #masks