Surrealists Fantastical Creatures Quotes & Sayings

In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response. — F.R. Leavis

When you see suffering and sadness, to heal them the least we can offer is our love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Even when I'm writing about shape shifters and magical lands, I'm looking into my own heart. — Kay Kenyon

Emotions buzz through our beings like busy bees, giving us the gift of living vividly. — Amy Leigh Mercree

As long as we live, our self-absorption and our insecurity will walk together, holding hands and swinging them back and forth like two little girls on their way to a pretend playground they can never find. Human nature dictates that most often we will be as insecure as we are self-absorbed. The best possible way to keep from getting sucked into the superficial narcissistic mentality that money, possessions, and sensuality can satisfy and secure us is to deliberately give ourselves to something much greater ... [Christ] showed us that giving, rather than getting, is the means to receiving ... to find yourself, your true self, you must lose yourself in something larger. — Beth Moore

Old Veteran also loved to go on adventures. On one such adventure, a coyote attacked Old Veteran. — Jeanie Vant

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. — Lord Byron

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality. — Haruki Murakami

Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in scattering them abroad generously with joy and magnanimity, not reluctantly or under compulsion. — Symeon The New Theologian

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time. — Drew Gilpin Faust

...those works that don't touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art. — Gustave Flaubert

Besides, taking a chance on romance is a dance in tight pants. It's risky but frisky. But make the right move and your in the groove. — Lisi Harrison

Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don't lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day. — Henry Rollins

Healing was more than just being cured of cancer or finding the one who actually saw you for you. It was more than getting over your past, embracing your future. Healing's waking up every day when you'd rather stay in bed; healing's when you smile instead of cry; healing's when you can hold your head high, despite what demons try to pull it down. And life was full of it, full of opportunities to cut and run, rather than stay put and face the storm. They never — Rachel Van Dyken