#life

I am the daughter of a Chicana and anglo. I think most days I am an embarrassment to both groups. I sometimes hate the white in me so viciously that I long to forget the commitment my skin has imposed upon my life. ↗

— Cherrie Moraga

#anglo #both #commitment #daughter #days

My aim in life is not to judge. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#judge #life

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life. ↗

— Giorgio Morandi

#artist #dozen #enough #half #just

I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back. ↗

— Jerry Moran

#back #convinced #get #give #i

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life-lessons #inspirational

I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take my own life, because when the darkness is over, then what a blessing is the feeblest ray of light! ↗

— Valerie Martin

#inspirational #jekyll-and-hyde #life-and-living #light #beauty

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations. ↗

— Gustave Moreau

#emotions #even #find #fine #horror

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#down #go #life #life is a #mountain

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts... ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#artist #career #creative #creativity #life

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. ↗

— François Truffaut

#books-reading #film #life #music #art