“Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.”
Freya Stark
“The secret of life is in art.”
Oscar Wilde
“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”
“One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator”
Thomas Mann
“ Without the beast there is no comparable for beauty - you must have both in art and in life ”
Daniel Robert O'Neill
“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.”
William Shakespeare
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”
Mark Twain