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The beginning of adolescence seems to mark the abrupt end of artistic development in terms of drawing skills for many adults. As children, they confronted an artistic crisis, a conflict between their increasingly complex perceptions of the world around them and their current level of art skill.
You take the mortar, block, and glass
And you forget the speech that moved the stone
And you forget the speech that moved the stone
Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
We choose our destiny in the way we treat others.
Work work work work work
Middle line divides labor
Work work work work work
Middle line divides labor
Work work work work work
Poem: “Division of Labor”
Essentially, it was a power struggle between progressives and conservatives. The backward-looking Celts lost: at the Synod of Whitby in 664, the issue was decided in favor of the Roman tradition… and… the Irish monks’ distinctive Uncial script was replaced by its more compact Insular version.
Book: “Script & Scribble”, 2009, page 30
The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance.
Book: “The Natural Way to Draw”, by Kimon Nicolaides, quoted in
anyone, who depends on the use of the fingers alone, without a simultaneous movement of the arm, or forearm, will be unable to write a word extending an inch or more upon the line, without having his hand gradually thrown over from left to right, in order to allow for the action of the pen on the paper. The third and fourth fingers remaining fixed, while the other two are carrying the pen to the end of a long word, the hand and the fingers are painfully cramped and strained. On finishing a word, moreover, the hand is jerked along, and the under fingers make to a new position. This they retain until the hand is gradually turned nearly or quite over, and the fingers that hold the pen, are again stretched as far in advance of the others as they can bear, when a new jerk is given to the hand, and so on till the writing is finished.
Essay: Prize essay on the best method of teaching penmanship, 1834
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.
I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
See, you finish a book by writing it, but in my head, it’s not really done until it’s sitting in your hand.
Freedom isn’t worth having if it doesn’t involve the freedom to make mistakes.
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
I’ll tell you a riddle. You’re waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don’t know for sure. But it doesn’t matter. How can it not matter to you where the train will take you?
Movie: Inception
…the matter and life which fill the world are equally within us; the forces which work in all things we feel within ourselves; whatever may be the inner essence of what is and what is done, we are of that essence. Let us then go down into our own inner selves: the deeper the point we touch, the strong will be the thrust which sends us back to the surface.
Book: The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics
A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.
War and courage have done more than love of your neighbor. Not your pity but your bravery has saved the unfortunate thus far.
Life is a MMORPG. Grind. Level Up. Conquer the world.
[Evolution via natural selection] is, “almost a tautology,” and “not a testable scientific theory but a metaphysical research program… One ought to look for alternatives.”
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
He who leads a war for the love of his fellow men, will defeat his enemies.
Video game: Metro 2033
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
This is every cook’s opinion -
no savory dish without an onion,
but lest your kissing should be spoiled
your onions must be fully boiled.
no savory dish without an onion,
but lest your kissing should be spoiled
your onions must be fully boiled.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Speech:
Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.
Materialism is the auxiliary doctrine of every tyranny, be it that of a single man or of the masses.
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.
I don’t want to punish any body, but there are an extraordinary number of people whom I want to kill. I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly appointed board just as he might come before the income tax commissioners and say every 5 or 7 years just put them there and say, ‘Sir or madame, would you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly, we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive because your life does not benefit us and it can’t be very much use to yourself.’
Jesus wishes each of us to remain in his place, sanctifying the world from within, improving it and placing it at the feet of God. Only thus will the world be a place where human dignity is valued and respected, a place where men live in peace, in true peace, the peace which is so closely linked to God… Those we live and work with, those we come in contact with, should find us loyal, sincere, joyful and hard-working. We should behave as people who fulfill their duties honestly and live as children of God in the ups and downs of each day. The ordinary norms of courtesy (how we greet others, our cordiality and spirit of service), which for many are merely conventional and external, have to be in us the fruit of charity and an expression of real interest in someone else.
Book: In Conversation with God, v 2, p 535-536
You don’t have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
Now, it is worthy of remark that [Thomism] is the only working philosophy. Of nearly all other philosophies it is strictly true that their followers work in spite of them, or do not work at all. No sceptics work sceptically; no fatalists work fatalistically; all without exception work on the principle that it is possible to assume what it is not possible to believe. No materialist who thinks his mind was made up for him, by mud and blood and heredity, has any hesitation in making up his mind. No sceptic who believes that truth is subjective has any hesitation about treating it as objective.
Book: Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox
“No one is happy here on earth until he decides not to be.”
Book: The Furrow, #52.
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