Guru Gratitude Quotes

#1. No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

Paul Gauguin

#2. An era that I specifically like is sort of late 50's, early 60's. I guess mid 50's too. I like these types of films that deal with post WWII America and this more complex leading man that kind of emerges from that.

Alden Ehrenreich

#3. I said there are at least two kinds of satisfaction, however, and the other has nothing to do with skill. It comes from human connection. It comes from making others happy, understanding them, loving them.

Atul Gawande

#4. It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

Austin Kleon

#5. All images and sensations, if idolatrously mistaken for Joy itself, soon honestly confessed themselves inadequate. All said, in a last resort, "It is not high. I am only a reminder. Look! Look! What do I remind you of?" CS Lewis

Philip Zaleski

#6. She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

John Green

#7. Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#8. Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

Og Mandino

#9. This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.

Roberto Benigni

#10. Women of God can never be like women of the world.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#11. My real dwelling
Has no pillars
And no roof either
So rain cannot soak it
And wind cannot blow
it down.

Ikkyu

#12. What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.

Max Lucado

#13. When the messenger won't tell you what the hell the message is, my trigger finger gets twitchy. Dismissed.

Orson Scott Card

#14. We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.

Tony Robbins

#15. The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.

Tom Gjelten