St. Vincent Quotes

We don't break our captains. We kill them.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

We tend to get what we expect.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud

It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him.

I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do.

You are loved. If so, what else matters?

Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is--pray and believe.

Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you've got and it will give you all it's got, which will be plenty.

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Life must go on; I forget just why.

If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the

A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down.

Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

A nation that combines the America predilection towards violence, the American stockpile of weapons and the American lack of empathy for the earth's humiliated peoples is a dangerous nation.

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

Expect great things, and great things will come.

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

A peaceful mind generates power.

Be curious about life, and cautious with it!

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all 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?

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.

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

One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.

There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.