#king

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #assumption #battle #beat #constantly

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #believe #creative #divine #essence

And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. ↗

— William Gilbert

#call #i #i always #myself #never

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#happiest #his #home #king #peace

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#difficult #english-speaking #french #full #many

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#ascetic #deceives #deplorable #egotism #giving

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#colour #digital #gave #had #i

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#easy #everywhere #looking #paper #poetry

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#action #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #easy

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#doing #life #like #liking #makes