Obolus Room Quotes

#1. You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.

Angel Olsen

#2. A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.

Bob Black

#3. A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Francois Rabelais

#4. Here was the thing: People felt the way they did and it wasn't their fault or yours if the connection was one-sided. It just ... was.

J.R. Ward

#5. It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Pride flees when we compare ourselves to God instead of [to] other people.

Billy Graham

#7. Love is a nonexistent myth; a precious commodity cherished by the dying and the weak in spirit

Levi Cheruo Cheptora

#8. Failure is the quintessence to triumph. Fear is a necessity. Whatever is needed in one's life to maintain the universal principle of Chaos should be seasoned and not discouraged. Regardless of whether it's crazy, it's one's subjective reality. That makes it beautiful.

Lionel Suggs

#9. Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

Frank Stella