#mp

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. ↗

— Thomas John Barnardo

#better #character #conduct #highest #importance

One who is patient glows with an inner radiance. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #mindfulness #patience #art

practice makes better ↗

— Brian Lies

#drawing #improving #practice #art

The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness. ↗

— Baltasar Gracián

#art

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#wisdom #life

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy. ↗

— Max McKeown

#improvement #inertia #leadership #strategy #age

I do so love the art of severing boundaries ↗

— Poppet

#vampire-romance #art

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beauty #bias #bourgeois #capitalism #creativity

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#art #complete #entirely #hedgehog #isolated

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#patience #psychology #self-improvement #wisdom #art