Artes Quotes

#1. Everything that fails brings you closer to what works.

J.K. Rowling

#2. Collect yourself in His presence with the one purpose and intent of loving Him. Come to Him as one who is giving himself to God. Behold Him in the most inward recess of your spirit that you can find.

Gene Edwards

#3. Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in is the state of mind that you are born into.

Frederick Lenz

#4. We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#5. If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

E. M. Forster

#6. Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
[Lat., Paupertas ... omnes artes perdocet.]

Plautus

#7. Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light is what opened this dispensation. It is what keeps it going, and it is what will keep you going.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#8. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure.

Pema Chodron

#9. They had been harboring a hatred for us which we had grown accustomed to calling "prejudice." What a gentle word that was! What a euphemism!

Edith Hahn Beer

#10. Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)

Ovid

#11. We are built to be dupes for theories. But theories come and go; experience stays. Explanations

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. Christianity does not provide the reason for
each experience of pain,
but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering
with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

Timothy Keller

#13. Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
[Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]

Tacitus