Hardrick Porchia Quotes & Sayings

If you never fail, that means you never tried to do something impossible. — Polly Whittaker

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. — William J.H. Boetcker

Ale Perez I can't imagine why anyone would choose to be male. It's just so unsubtle. Women only have to deal with breasts, which are what they are. They don't suddenly stand up whenever they feel like it and begin pointing at something they want.

Augie Hwong You SO don't know what you're missing. — Steve Kluger

Since there were three of them, maybe this was a Trinity sort of thing. But two women and a man and none of them white? — Wm. Paul Young

I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence
I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I'm told to by self-appointed guides. — Neil Peart

Life is spiritual! — Lailah Gifty Akita

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it. — Dexter Gordon

If we reverse the outer shell and the essence
in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell
our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand. — Haruki Murakami

Release your problem to God with a prayer that the answer will come in its own good time and place. Hold the attitude of faith and expectancy, knowing that God has all the answers, that His knowledge is limitless and can never be exhausted. — Wilferd Peterson

I can't remember who said it - I think it was Allan Gurganus when he was visiting the Michener Center - but he told us to "spend [our] gold," meaning, put everything you have into a story. Other "gold" will be waiting for you for your next project. — Mary J. Miller

Oh, Ashley, nothing has turned out as we expected! It never does, he said. Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is. — Margaret Mitchell

I can endure poverty but not shame-neglect but not insult,and insult from you.. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way. — Jamie Wyeth