There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.
-Paul Gauguin
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way’.
-C.S. Lewis
It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.
-Gorky Maxim, Letter to Anton Chekhov
Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth
I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.
-Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, 1643
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don’t want my kids to make.
-Jane Fonda
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
-Walter F. Mondale
Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
-Sean O
Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world ? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue our future lives will be less afflicted.
-W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge