Repackage Picasso Quotes & Sayings

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate. — Herb Goldberg

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard. — David McCullough

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. — Thomas Carlyle

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

what is stronger
than the human heart
which shatters over and over
and still lives — Rupi Kaur

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future. — Terence McKenna

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof. — Elizabeth I

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country. — Leona Lewis

I felt the wall between the world of secrets and the real world start to collapse. I felt the girls from the portrait becoming us and us becoming them ... — Carol Rifka Brunt

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

She had been desperate to feel something, anything. She needed a window, because she had broken her heart throwing it at locked doors. — Amy Zhang

Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science and Bad Religion in a World Without God. — Greg Graffin

Loving the Hands

I could make a wardrobe
with tufts of wool
caught on thistle and bracken.

Lost - the scraps
I might have woven whole cloth.

"Come watch," the man says,
shearing sheep
with the precision of long practice,
fleece, removed all of a piece,
rolled in a neat bundle.

I've been so clumsy
with people people who've loved me.

Straddling a ewe,
the man props its head on his foot,
leans down with clippers,
each pass across the coat a caress.

His dogs, lying nearby,
tremble at every move - as I do,
loving the hands that have learned
to gentle the life beneath them. — Julie Suk

People used to think we just faked all that stuff ... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good. — Terry Gilliam