You can be at ease only with those people to whom you can say any damn fool thing that comes into your head
John D. MacDonald
The Luncheon of the Boating Party, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Life is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass through them quickly.
Voltaire
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, Frida Kahlo
You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you
Doevetsky
John Martin, Le Pandemonium
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The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.
Sigmund Freud
Mask Series No. 18, Zeng Fanzhi
If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Fall of the Damned, Peter Paul Rubens
I'm sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.
Warsan Shire
Return of the Prodigal Son, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
You can't smell the roses from a galloping horse
Chinese proverb
The Rose Garden at Wargemont, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C.S. Lewis
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio
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All of us need to be on guard against arrogance, which knocks at the door whenever you're successful.
Steve Jobs
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
Ann Brashares
Still Life with Apples, Paul Cézanne
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil, Claude Monet
A real loser is somebody that's so afraid of not winning they don't even try.
Little Miss Sunshine (Film)
The Fighting Temeraire, M. W. Turner
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Ann Brashares
If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
Oscar Wilde
Broadway Boogie Woogie, Piet Mondrian
You cannot wish for both strong character and an easy life. The price of each is the other.
Alex Hormozi
The Third-Class Carriage, Honoré Daumier
Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter
African Proverb
The Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Wolf and the Lamb, Jean-Baptiste Oudry
I have something he will never have: enough.
Kurt Vonnegut
The Angelus, Jean-François Millet
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on
Franklin Roosevelt
Crosscurrents, Winslow Homer
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people
Eleanor Roosevelt
The School of Athens, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died
Alexander the Great
Island of the Dead, Arnold Bocklin
People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel
Maya Angelou
Water Lillies, Claude Monet
If you live to be 100, I hope I live to 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you
Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)
Dance at Bougival, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Those who do not move do not notice their chains
Rosa Luxemburg
Prisoners Exercising, Vincent van Gogh
Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free
Rumi
Joy of Life (Bonheur de Vivre), Henri Matisse
Diligence is the mother of good fortune
Miguel de Cervantes
The Sower, Jean-François Millet
The little prince went back to look at the roses again. "You're not at all like my rose. You're nothing at all yet," he told them. "No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone. You're the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in all the world." And the roses were humbled. "You're lovely, but you're empty," he went on. "One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass. Since she's the one I sheltered behind a screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three for butterflies.) Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Vase with Pink Roses, Vincent van Gogh
I'm not asking you to give me a kiss, not to apologize to me when I think you've made a mistake, I won't even ask you to hug me when I need it most, I'm not asking you to tell me how beautiful I am even if it's a lie, or to write me anything nice. I'm not even going to ask you to call me to tell me how your day was, or to tell me you miss me. I'm not going to ask you to thank me for everything I do for you, or to worry about me when I'm down, and of course, I'm not going to ask you to support me in my decisions, or even to listen when I have a thousand stories to tell you. I'm not going to ask you to do anything, not even to be by my side forever. Because if I have to ask you, then I don't want it anymore.
Frida Kahlo
Lovers, René Magritte
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When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning they distract themselves with pleasure
Victor Frankl
The Swing, Fragonard
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt
Sylvia Plath
Nighthawks, Edward Hopper
A goal without a plan is just a wish
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Architect’s Dream, Thomas Cole
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Of Things to Come, Georg Scholz
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned
Buddha
Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel
You deserve to be loved without having to hide the parts of yourself that you think are unlovable
Unknown
Untitled, Jean-Michel Basquiat
At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?
Elie Wiesel
Narcissus, Caravaggio
The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.
Rumi
Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, Georgia O'Keeffe
Imagine being bitten by a snake, and instead of focusing on healing from the poison, you chase the snake to understand why it bit you and to prove that you didn't deserve it.
Unknown
The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, Jan Brueghel the Elder & Peter Paul Rubens
You may get to your goal without glory or tribute, but you will feel the emptiness of a victory that cost you nothing.
Unknown
Mystery and Melancholy of a Street, Giorgio de Chirico
If you resist being rubbed, how will you become polished?
Rumi
Ethereal Stone, Trevor Healy