#insp

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly ↗

— Peter M. Senge

#life #art

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it. ↗

— Henry Moore

#creative #inspirational #art

Art is long. The artist must buckle himself with infinite patience. His ears must be deaf to the clamour of his insistent friends who would quicken his pace. His eyes must see naught but the vision beyond. He must await the season of fruitage without haste, without worldly ambitions, without vexation of the spirit. An inspiration is no more than a seed that must be planted and nourished. It gives growth as it grows to the artist, only as he watches and waits with his highest effort. ↗

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

#inspiration #patience #art

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce. ↗

— Gretel Ehrlich

#strength #art

The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #motivational #power #self-empowerment

You may be confident that if something is necessary for the carrying out of His will in your life, God is ready to give it…If they [desires] are not mere whims to bring only momentary satisfaction or glory to us but are rather true desires to accomplish more good and live more fully to His glory, then it will be in accordance with His will. Only a careful searching of your heart can allow you to know the motivation that prompts your prayer. ↗

— John Bisagno

#prayer #inspirational

Fear is unconscious thought, the perception of being denied the realization of satisfying that in which we perceive to need... ↗

— Namasté Anonymous

#fear #freedom #hope #inspiration #inspirational

I'd learned balance is internal; that there really wasn’t one set formula for how to live your life nor how to handle the wife-mother-businesswoman juggling act. Maybe it was just being tuned in to every role and knowing when one or the other needed to be the focus. ↗

— Kaira Rouda

#change #inspirational #change

The biggest change we can make and the most exhilarating is to change ourselves ↗

— Cynthia Sue Larson

#philosophy #change

better not rattle the cage of a rabid Lobo ↗

— Rosangela Maria Vieira

#inspirational