#ira

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. ↗

— Flora Lewis

#arisen #aspiration #concepts #democracy #dignity

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you cintribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go. ↗

— Simon Zingerman

#business #creativity #feel-good #good-hearted #goodness

Hold love like a butterfly, with gentle preservation. Hold life like the reigns of a wild stallion, with fierce assertion. Encompass that, and you find the nectar of the immortal spirit. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#inspirational #inspirational-quotes #life #life-and-living #love

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#funding #gallery #government #happen #may

In the hierarchy, the artist faces outward. Meeting someone new he asks himself, What can this person do for me? How can this person advance my standing?   In the hierarchy, the artist looks up and looks down. The one place he can’t look is that place he must: within. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#art

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you. ↗

— John Marsden

#inspirational-love #friendship

You’ve got to lick yourself into shape. Nobody can do it for you. The man who dreams of artistry, and yet thinks it is necessary for somebody else to lick him into shape, is a man whose art is doomed to be mediocre. Please believe me, this is not harshness on my part: it is the harshness of the nature of the game that I am exposing to you. If you are going to deliver the real goods, you’ve got to do your own licking into shape. ↗

— Jack London

#mentorship #writing #art

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#always #am #asking #every #i

Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true. ↗

— Kaira Rouda

#attitude