.:eightSeven:. i’m an Artist

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet.

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.

For, It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by the same road.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Hope is the dream of the waking man.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Hence, We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

He who hesitates is lost.

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think.

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.

The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done.