#tru

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#lifetime #lightning #man #manages #out

But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man! ↗

— Charles Eastman

#be true #friend #man #mark #trials

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#life #live #lives #many #more

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#art #definition #imperfect #inasmuch #mere

I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#african #drum #first #go #grew

Although people sometimes assume that the happy are self-absorbed and complacent, just the opposite is true. In general, happiness doesn't make people want to drink daiquiris on the beach; it makes them want to help rural villagers gain better access to clean water. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#happiness #experience

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week. ↗

— Sean Hayes

#accepting #before #each #every #gay

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion. ↗

— Angel Haze

#artistic expression #conveying #emotion #expression #lies

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#destruction #finger #gives #least #little

Well, it wasn't a holiday, but I had expected to do some sightseeing when I went to Haiti to film a series called 'True Horror' for Discovery. Before I arrived, our film crew were kidnapped and held at knifepoint. ↗

— Anthony Head

#before #called #crew #discovery #expected