“Nature never breaks her own laws.”

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

The greater the man’s soul, the deeper he loves.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

When is giving up okay before or after we break?

Healing was not found in mending my brokenness, but in finding peace among the pieces.

What a loss they suffered, the day they left you.

Breathe my dear, just breathe and this too shall surely pass it will not break you.

These bridges that we walk across they weren’t build to be burned.

Our love like a sunset was short-lived but complete.

You were the best and worst nights of my life fucking while the flames lick us at least you’re a distraction from my spiritual death. You’re a god damn angel in a crack den.

I had to leave you to find me I had to lose you to love me.