#na

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man. ↗

— Shams-ud-din Muhammed Hafiz

#inspirational #three-cups-of-tea #inspirational

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego. ↗

— Thandie Newton

#am #become #ego #feel #get

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#boy #diverting #finding #great #i

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#appearances #both #causes #explain #more

The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. All you have to do it with is a brush, some chemical and canvas, and technique. ↗

— Steven Brust

#inspirational #art

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses. ↗

— Bob Ney

#businesses #clog #colleagues #common-sense #courts

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did. ↗

— Harold Nicholas

#asked #ballet #brother #copied #dancer

The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#the-alchemist #inspirational

Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#evolution #inspirational #learning #life #motivational

It is better to light a candle than to curse the dark ↗

— K'naan

#inspirational