Quotes about Contentment, page 129

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

Quote by June Jordan about contentment

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

Quote by June Jordan about contentment

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Quote by John Calvin about contentment

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Quote by Jean Kerr about contentment

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Quote by Jean Kerr about contentment

If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

Quote by Edward Fitzgerald about contentment

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

Quote by Frida Kahlo about contentment

I love you more than my own skin.

Quote by Frida Kahlo about contentment

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

Quote by Frida Kahlo about contentment

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

Quote by Owen Wister about contentment

Practise what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

Quote by Rembrandt van Rijn about contentment

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

Quote by Donald McNichol Sutherland about contentment

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

Quote by Donald McNichol Sutherland about contentment

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Quote by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela about contentment

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Quote by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela about contentment

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Quote by Edgar Degas about contentment

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Quote by Edgar Degas about contentment

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Quote by Edgar Degas about contentment

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Quote by Edgar Degas about contentment

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Quote by Margaret Fuller about contentment