#inspirational

Reality is just a dream dreamed by everyone ↗

— Fola

#inspirational #reality #dreams

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them but they are talking to you, they bring back the problems of yesterday, etc. Somebody is talking. Who is talking to you? Your self is talking to you. Now this man’s treatment [in Psalm 42] was this: instead of allowing this self to talk to him, he starts talking to himself. “Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” he asks. His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up and says, “Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you. ↗

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#art

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. ↗

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#france #impressionism #impressionist #inspirational #paris

The sheer size, extent, and magnitude of the blood vessels tell us two things: the awesomeness of God’s work in man and the fact that as human beings, every one of us is a walking wonder, an amazing work of art. ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#spiritual-development #spiritual-warfare #art

It is not the absence of defensiveness that characterizes learning teams but the way defensiveness is faced ↗

— Peter M. Senge

#art

Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #art

Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is another victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frusturated!" There was a brief pause. "In the end they shall kill us. But first they shall fear us! ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#sci-fi #age

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #arts-and-humanities #be-yourself #creative-people #creative-process

One should always seek out opportunity, not security. The desire for opportunity comes from courage, whereas the desire for security comes from fear. ↗

— Lisa Taylor

#fear #inspirational #opportunity #courage

To forgive does not mean to forget. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#inspirational #meditation #art