Art Quotes

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

It is vital that when educating our children’s brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

A person’s most useful asset is not a head full of knowledge, but a heart full of love, an ear ready to listen and a hand willing to help others.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.

Sometimes we need someone to simply be there. Not to fix anything or do anything in particular, but just to let us feel we are supported and cared about.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

The only way to bring peace to the earth Is to learn to make our own life peaceful.

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.

Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution.