#ura

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#drawings #go #i #into #just

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing. ↗

— David Letterman

#because #behavior #believe #courage #courageous

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#die #live #often #test

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ↗

— David Frost

#aim #believe #come #do what you love #just

I looked along the aisle and saw her, and it was as if I saw her for the first time. Everything changed. The ancient featureless interior of me spangled orange, mint, cat-blue. I looked back to the window immediately, my face damp, my breath caught. And worried I would never have the courage to look at her again. ↗

— Sonya Hartnett

#everything-changed #featureless #first-time #change

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing. ↗

— Jim Rogers

#encourage #life #world #change

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#am #drawing #england #ever #gardener

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments. ↗

— James A. Leach

#elections #encouraging #government #held #iraqis

These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage. ↗

— R.H. Blyth

#zen #courage

If you think about it, for any kind of content on the web, the natural price per unit of these things should be under a dollar. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#any #content #dollar #kind #natural