#pow

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. ↗

— George A. Smith

#make #man #often #position #trifle

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you. ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#music #pain #power-of-music #art

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#inadequacy-of-words #painting #power-of-words #self-expression #art

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#curse #dorian-gray #gods #good-looks #inspirational

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#connected #else #empowered #everybody #everybody else

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#education #empowerment #teaching #art

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#power-of-words #art

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#anderbo-com #art #beauty #behavior #books

He dreamed big but understood that dreams become reality only when their champions are strong enough and wily enough to bend history to their purposes. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#art

Wir sind das Volk!" Dieser Satz hat uns gelehrt, dass wir, wenn wir unserer Sehnsucht glauben und ihr vertrauen, die Angst verlieren können. Eine Angst, die willfährige Dienerin jeder Art von nicht legitimierter Herrschaft ist, die uns ohnmächtig macht, die uns bindet. In dem Augenblick aber, in dem wir unsere Angst als Angst benennen und Anpassung und Angst als Geschwisterkinder erkennen, sind wir möglicherweise bereit zu erproben: Können wir auch ohne sie leben? In genau diesem Augenblick wachsen uns jene Kräfte zu, die eine ganze Gesellschaft verändern können. ↗

— Joachim Gauck

#civil-rights #courage #democracy #dictatorship #empowerment