Art Quotes - Page 17

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two we would provide ourselves with enough energy to ... catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe."

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.

The noblest art is that of making others happy

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

There are many who want me to tell them of secret ways of becoming perfect and I can only tell them that the sole secret is a hearty love of God, and the only way of attaining that love is by loving. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art.

Even if you strive diligently on your chosen path day after day, if your heart is not in accord with it, then even if you think you are on a good path, from the point of view of the straight and true, this is not a genuine path. If you do not pursue a genuine path to its consummation, then a little bit of crookedness in the mind will later turn into a major warp. Reflect on this.

To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.

I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.

O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react.

If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

Don't let your brain interfere with your heart.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.