“Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.” Quote by Jamie Wyeth
“Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened for the moment when things do start clicking, but that doesn't happen a lot. I really have to push myself sometimes. Painting is a profession in which it is very easy to be lazy, particularly if you have any degree of success.” IfsSometimesMomentsHappensEasyPaintingDegreesToolsProfessionLazy Author:Jamie Wyeth
“Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.” PleasureAnimalCompanyStrangeConnectionsEnjoymentRepeatsThrive Author:Kate Christensen
“Thank God for my hobgoblin, small-minded consistency.” Thank GodConsistency Book:Trouble: A Novel Source: Trouble: A Novel
“To taste fully is to live fully. And to live fully is to be awake and responsive to complexities and truths - good and terrible, overwhelming and miniscule. To eat passionately is to allow the world in; there can be no hiding or sublimation when you're chewing a mouthful of food so good it makes you swoon.” WorldTerribleTasteAwakeComplexityHidingOverwhelmingChewing Author:Kate Christensen
“In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!” WorldFirstsBookClassCasesWonderfulWorking ClassEmergenciesSave The WorldCourtney Author:Ali Liebegott
“Thy love is Singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ, and thou dost find joy and comfort in no other thing.” JoyJesusChristLove IsComfortJesus ChristDelight Author:Richard Rolle
“The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.” HeartSoulLordCommandmentsOur ThoughtsOur LordCommandments Of God Author:Richard Rolle
“It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.” IfsMayWiseTheeGod LoveBeing Wise Author:Richard Rolle
“What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.” RealDifferencesHumilityTruthfulness Author:Walter Hilton
“The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.” ChanceSpaceBrokenTrue FriendIntervals Author:John Cassian