- The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. - Albert Einstein
- The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. - Anais Nin
- One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. - Maya Angelou
- To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. - Mohandas Gandhi
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde
- The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. - Albert Einstein
- Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. - Albert Einstein
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein
- He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein
- Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch we are free. - V for Vendetta
- To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. - T.S. Eliot
- For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. - Mark Twain
- Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau
- We work in the dark. We do what we can. We give what we have. Our doubt is our passion. Our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. - Henry James
- True art has a mythic quality that speaks of that which was true, is true, and will be true. - Madeleine L'Engle
- There are two ways to look at life: one as though everything is a miracle, the other as though nothing is. - Albert Einstein
- Therefore, the act of creating -- painting a picture, singing a song, writing a story -- is a humble act? This was a new thought to me. Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else, that special kind of creative courage which is unselfconscious: the moment you wonder whether or not you can do it, you can't. - Madeleine L'Engle
- It's the creative impulse to look at the seeming chaos of the universe and then to express this chaos in terms of pattern and of love and - perhaps most important of all – joy. - Madeleine L'Engle
- Beauty is before me and Beauty behind me. Above me and below me hovers the beautiful. I am surrounded by it, I am immersed in it. In my youth I am aware of it, and, in old age, I shall walk quietly the beautiful trail. In beauty, it is begun, in beauty, it is ended. - Navajo chant
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