You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.
Witold Gombrowicz
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Robert Browning
Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.
Harvey Mackay
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
Julie Andrews
Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.
Joyce Meyer
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay