Quotes for All
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people don’t like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it’s difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It’s for the same reason why we don’t like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art … Read more
When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are able to see things as they are – not as you would like them to be. And when you are capable of knowing the facts of life, you become capable of knowing the … Read more
A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever. Raghu Rai
Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily. Abebe Bikila
Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.
Ronald Reagan