Reading for writers is like training for athletes.
Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.
Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.
Gratitude is here presented as more than a feeling, a virtue, or an experience; gratitude emerges as an attitude we can freely choose in order to create a better life for ourselves and for others. The Nigerian Hausa put it this way: Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.
Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.
The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.
What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.
I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.
Wherever thou goest, whatever thou dost at home, or abroad, in the field, or at church, do all in a desire of union with Christ, in imitation of His tempers and inclinations, and look upon all as nothing, but that which exercises, and increases the spirit and life of Christ in thy soul.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.