When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.
Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.
Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.
The eye of true equality often seems to have some degree of disrespect for the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty to the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty, although in reality, it's simply irrespectiveness.
We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.
To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.
If you want to know what a truly healthy relationship is, it’s one where both people wake up every morning and say, “I choose to be with this person.
The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.
...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.
...actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.
How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
As far as it’s ideal that you get helped by people, it doesn't mean they are compelled to make your dreams come true without your efforts.
It is a pure soul who can hold true the innocence and timelessness of passion in another soul. Each unveiling the greatest pieces of the other, locked together at the heart for eternity
Believe this," he whispered, and kissed her with the sharp, sleek kiss, the silver kiss, so swift and true, and razor sharp, and her warmth was flowing into him.
We need to make our own miracles, it is a wasted exercise to just wait for miracles to happen; they need a spark of energy and desire to make them come true.
You can either follow your dreams with determination and persistence until they become true, or you can be blown by the winds of fate - were anything can happen.
While the ingrates duke-it-out about the true God, you take each breath in holy gratitude.
One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.
You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know
It’s true—there are only, like, two songs about rainbows, including that one. He should be asking why there are so few songs about rainbows.
