bequests

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

train

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

Wassily Kandinsky

spiritual

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

companion

I've never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

victory

The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.

Sun Tzu

pictures

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Walt Disney

ourselves

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Lord Buddha

beauty

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

Donna Tartt, "The Goldfinch"

prefer

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Moliere

live

Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke

impression

What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.

T.F. Hodge

little times

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

Andy Warhol

tradition

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Chinua Achebe

happiness

Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are; it solely relies on what you think.

Lord Buddha

destination

My destination is no longer a place, but a way of seeing.

Marcel Proust

madness

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

if

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Edward Hopper

character

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

art

Art washes away the dirty linens of materialism.
 
Rainer Maria Rilke

strength

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our hearts.

Rumi

fear

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

Mahatma Ghandi

creativity

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Maya Angelou

accomplishment

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Arnold J. Toynbee

mistakes

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Lord Buddha

convictions

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

letting to

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a party of your destiny.

Steve Maraboli

you

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Alan Watts

we will

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.

Thomas Berry

voice

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

present

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Henry David Thoreau

conditioned

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Leo Tolstoy