59 quotes found
“The truth isn't always beauty but the hunger for it is.”
“When your dreams tire they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.”
“The history of all times and of today especially teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.”
“To the lack of incentive to effort which is the awful shadow under which we live may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.”
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
“I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.”
“You know my children that humanity advances only by forming itself an ideal and endeavoring to realize it. Every passion has its ideal which is modified by that of the whole.”
“The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.”
“Dreams are the sources of action the meeting and the end a resting place among the flight of things.”
“Within your heart keep one still secret spot where dreams may go.”
“I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me like wine through water and altered the color of my mind.”
“It may be that those who do most dream most.”
“It's our dreams that keep us going that separate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.”
“The artist doesn't see things as they are but as he is.”
“Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways-in science in politics in every bold intention. It is part of our collective lives entwining our p...”
“We are governed not by armies but by ideas.”
“No vision and you perish No ideal and you're lost Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope some dream to cling to Some rainbow in the sky Some melody to sing to Some service t...”
“Five minutes just before going to sleep given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow will steadily and increasingly bear fruit particularly if all ideas ...”
“When there is no vision people perish.”
