#fountain

You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they know it, and they know they have you. Do you ever look at the people in the street? Aren't you afraid of them? I am. They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That's the only kind they fear. I don't know why ↗

— Ayn Rand

#creativity #individuality #life-truths #the-fountainhead #art

Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fountain #limits #ocean #original #originality

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

#degradation #fountains #great #life #nation

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#draw #flow #fountainhead #give #go

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ↗

— Washington Irving

#everything #fountain #gladness #heart #into

The Bible is the fountain of truth. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#fountain #truth

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. ↗

— Lucretius

#anguish #arises #bitterness #enchantment #flowers

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#bring #creativity #defeated #fountain #learn

Rules?" said Roark. "Here are my rules: what can be done with one substance must never be done with another. No two materials are alike. No two sites on earth are alike. No two buildings have the same purpose. The purpose, the site, the material determine the shape. Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it's made by one central idea, and the idea sets every detail. A building is alive, like a man. Its integrity is to follow its own truth, its one single theme, and to serve its own single purpose. A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#beauty

There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#change