#iv

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#perspective #positive-thinking #attitude

Literary style is like crystal-ware: the cleaner the wineglass, the brighter the brilliance. As a reader, I agree with those who believe that a colour of the dress, which a character has on, as well as any enumeration and description of dishes at dinner or in the kitchen should be mentioned only in case if all this has a strong consequent relation to the plot, but as an author, I can’t help mentioning all this, with no particular reason, just for love for my characters, desiring to give them something nice and pleasant. Melancholy grows a platinum rose. Affection grows a double rose. ↗

— Lara Biyuts

#creative-writing #literature #love

Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#freedom #inspirational #motivational #psychology #spirituality

Maintain a forgiving attitude! ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#forgiving #inspirational-quotes #positive-attitude #attitude

Bądź sobą, a zwłaszcza nie udawaj uczuć. I nie bądź cyniczna wobez miłości, albowiem w obliczu wszelkiej oschłości i rozczarowań, ONA jest wieczna jak trwa". ↗

— Katarzyna Michalak

#life-and-living #love #inspirational

BENEDICK I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange? BEATRICE As strange as the thing I know not. It were as possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you: but believe me not; and yet I lie not; I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin. BENEDICK By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me. BEATRICE Do not swear, and eat it. BENEDICK I will swear by it that you love me; and I will make him eat it that says I love not you. BEATRICE Will you not eat your word? BENEDICK With no sauce that can be devised to it. I protest I love thee. BEATRICE Why, then, God forgive me! BENEDICK What offence, sweet Beatrice? BEATRICE You have stayed me in a happy hour: I was about to protest I loved you. BENEDICK And do it with all thy heart. BEATRICE I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest. BENEDICK Come, bid me do any thing for thee. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#forgiveness

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#combine #intellectual #more #other #private

If you're alive, you're creative. ↗

— Patti Digh

#creativity #encouragement-and-attitude #attitude

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

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