Your soul is the whole world.
Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass.
Forget the past and live the present hour.
The perfume of natures does not usually come forth without bruising.
Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will.
I like the man, who faces what he must, with steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; who fights the daily battle without fear.
Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.
Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.
O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll. "
Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.
I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.