#in

Hard work always pays off in the eyes of a God that never sleeps. . . . Who's always near and never far ↗

— Edna Stewart

#attitude

Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies ... Tod Langley I have that painted on my office wall and love to stare at it. ↗

— Tod Langley

#inspirational #magic #writer-quotes #inspirational

All life is death. You don't fool yourself about this anymore. You slash at the perfect canvas with strokes of paint and replace the perfect picture of your imagination with the reality of what you are capable of. From death, and sorrow, and compromise, you create. This is what it means, you finally realize, to be alive. ("The Chambered Fruit") ↗

— M. Rickert

#creativity #death #imagination #life #art

Power loves not the light of day, nor the attention of curious eyes. In darkness it thrives most...A lord may send his army hither and thither, but the true testing of his power is in those places where his army is not...Has he sent its long fingers far enough through the backstreets and alleys, into the drinking dens and the lending-houses, so that he may gather them unto himself and hold them firm without a single swordsman? ↗

— Brian Ruckley

#power #war #love

We cannot change situations in life, but we can change our attitude towards them ↗

— Mata Amritanandamayi

#attitude

We are who we have been. We must keep this in mind to become who we would like to be. ↗

— Destin Bays

#true-love-in-time #love

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up so that it sounded more like itself. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#creativity #music #songwriting #art

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#insight #love #mindfulness #psychology #art

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#inspirational #meditation #psychology #art

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#inspirational #love #mindfulness #peace #art