#though

Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#appeared #because #being #big #comforted

You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere. ↗

— Wayne Shorter

#booth #freedom #garfield #going #guy

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#arises #calm #comes #desire #desires

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#artists #especially #great #heart #i

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. ↗

— Alfred Sisley

#beholder #craft #highest #his #loveliness

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think. ↗

— Walter Smith

#did #find #i #ink #paper

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment. ↗

— Jimmy Smits

#could #i #long-term #long-term commitment #never

Change your thoughts and you change your world. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#change #our world #thoughts #world #you

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#bars #behind #emotionally #get #locked

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#first #first time #had #live #living