You can't change what happened between you and your ex-spouse, but you can change your attitude about it. Forgiveness doesn't mean... that what your ex did was right or that you condone what he or she did; it simply means that you no longer want to hold a grudge. Forgiveness is not a gift for the other person; it is a purely selfish act that allows you to put the past behind you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external worl...d by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miracul...ous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I myself, I, who, so far as it is finished, have composed this tragedy of tragedies entirely singlehandedly--I, who first tied the... knot of morality into existence and drew it up so tightly that only a god might loosen it (just as Horace demands!)MI myself have already killed all the gods in the fourth act--out of morality! Now what is to be done about the fifth act! Where will the tragic solution come from?--Do I need to start thinking about a comic solution?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act... awaits them, their act ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let our hearts, as subtle masters do, Stir up their servants to an act of rage... And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make Our purpose necessary, and not envious; Which so appearing to the common eyes, We shall be called purgers, not murderers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart... In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »