There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
-Gustave Flaubert
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
If a householder moulds himself according to the circumstances - just like nature moulds itself according to seasons - and performs his karma, then only shall he acquire happiness. One who does this successfully gains in all walks of life.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
-Ernest Hemingway
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent van Gogh