Octaval Quotes & Sayings

For indeed when painters themselves wish to represent sirens and satyrs [20] by means of especially bizarre forms, they surely cannot assign to them utterly new natures. Rather, they simply fuse together the members of various animals. Or if perhaps they concoct something so utterly novel that nothing like it has ever been seen before (and thus is something utterly fictitious and false), yet certainly at the very least the colors from which they fashion it ought to be true. And — Rene Descartes

The face of victory often resembles the face of defeat. — Jane Bowles

When you meet the one
who changes the way
your heart beats,
dance with them to that rhythm
for as long as the song lasts. — Kirk Diedrich

God creates "that which is not God" out of generous love in order that he may then, in the end, fill it, flood it, drench it, with his love and his glory. — N. T. Wright

One's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well. — Bernie Siegel

It feels incredible to be outside when I'm supposed to be inside. The sensation of freedom is intoxicating.
- Sara — Susane Colasanti

I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it. — Tim Cahill

The people who should be here aren't. The ones who should be smiling with me aren't here. — Yuna

The truth was much simpler. When do you become a writer? "When you say you are," he said. I — Jeff Goins

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach. — Ralph Marston

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. — Gloria Steinem

#HatersGonnaHate but thankfully #LoversGonnaLove. — Hal Elrod