#sit

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off. ↗

— Robert Smith

#completely #did #down #doze #hope

In between every action and reaction, there is a space. Usually the space is extremely small because we react so quickly, but take notice of that space and expand it. Be aware in that space that you have a choice to make. You can choose how to respond, and choose wisely, because the next step you take will teach your child how to handle anger and could either strengthen or damage your relationship. ↗

— Rebecca Eanes

#children #emotional-regulation #emotions #gentle-parenting #parenting

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#art #generosity #samantha #art

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all. ↗

— Mike Patton

#complacency #contentment #disposition #happiness #attitude

Curiosity is the main energy... ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#artist #creativity #curiosity #rauschenberg #art

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#book #composition #habits #i #learning

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ? ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#art

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#misery #necessity #need #art

God really is a Father, as displeased with a cramped, niggardly attitude of lack as with its opposite. ↗

— Brother Andrew

#god-s-grace #attitude

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#friends #lovers #neighbors #opposites #their