You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Khalil Gibran (1883 – 1931)
Michelangelo Quote – “Genius is eternal patience.”
Genius is eternal patience. Michelangelo (1475 – 1564)
Michelangelo Quote – “My unassisted heart is barren clay…”
My unassisted heart is barren clay, That of its native self can nothing feed. Of Good and pious works Thou art the seed, That quickens only where Thou sayest it may. Unless Thou show to us Thine own true way, No man can find it. Father! Thou must lead. Michelangelo (1475 – 1564)
Michelangelo Quote – “The greater danger for most of us…”
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. Michelangelo (1475 – 1564)
Rudyard Kipling Quote – “What you do when you don’t have to…”
What you do when you don’t have to determines what you will be, when you can no longer help it. Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936)
Rudyard Kipling Quote – “If you can keep your head when all about you…”
If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way […]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quote – “I have never written the music that was in my heart…”
I have never written the music that was in my heart to write. Perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I know that hereafter it will be written. When, instead of these few inlets of the senses through which we now secure impressions from all without, there shall be a flood of impressions from all sides, […]
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote – “The test of a first-rate intelligence…”
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the same mind at the same time. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940)
Erich Fromm Quote – “Freedom is not a constant attribute…”
Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either “have” or “have not.” In fact, there is no such thing as “freedom” except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each […]
Erich Fromm Quote – “He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God…”
He is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God. Erich Fromm (1900 – 1980)