#follow

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#caught #chase #comes #dreaming #find

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#certain #civil #experience #follow #formalities

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. ↗

— Carl Jung

#experience #follow #own #way #which

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#difference #every #expression #follows #fundamental

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

#child #children #else #enough #everything

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

#ahead #among #artists #connection #count

I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#concerts #different #driving #following #go

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#dogma #follow #footprints #i #much

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#cartoon #follow #funny #going #happening

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#amazed #facility #follow #i #i am