St. Vincent Quotes

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart develop the happiness habit and life will become a continual feast.

Joy increases as you give it and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours but the art of words exists too and will never be less important.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint, ' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

After all, my erstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Just because it perished?

Music, my rampart and my only one.

I had no desire to hear another woman tell my boyfriend how hot he was. If I wanted him to know, I'd damn well tell him myself.

Why is this so hard?” I whispered.His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. “Everything worth fighting for is hard.

In the underworld, reality itself has elastic properties and is capable of being stretched into different definitionsof the truth.

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.

Go to the poor: you will find God.

Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.

...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...

Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn.

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with youall through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?-And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would noteIn me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....

Writing:It starts at the keyboard, and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paako

Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.

I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach out to you.

Sometimes, something meaningless occurs, somewhere with meaning.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.

To be the master of tomorrow's dreams, you must first be the servant of today's planning.

Follow the dreams of others and you will receive a paycheck. Follow your own dreams and you will never check your pay.

On DreamsOnly one thing supersedes the importance of thinking about a better tomorrow. It's taking action today.

We are living in a world where moral climates have no atmosphere.

I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his peculiar delight will find him, however obscure they or he may be.

It takes great courage to open one's heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world.

It's hard to get enough of something that almost works.

But wanting something didn't give one the right to have it.

Vincent Marc Hoherz. On power.The most effective way to loose your power is to make use of it.

Have the courage to live... Anyone can die.

A father is only capable of giving what he has, and what he knows. A good father gives all of himself that is good.

The Lord made no better clock than a child, and none more bitter. Oh, what beautiful clocks they are.

I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.

As you turn into a daddy, soon now, you’ll find that, on marrying, a man and woman start actually living.

That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.