You know writing is really difficult and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others so much and I envy it.
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists but simply announce that they are don't have the patience to make art.
You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.
We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
There can never be such a thing as a free market because it is human nature to cheat monopolize and buy off others so as to corner the market.
All all is theft all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and without doubt the most agreeable one.
Good breeding is the result of good sense some good nature and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
I admire people who are by nature kind and fair to others.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections constitute the perfection of human nature.
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body it gives boldness enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Some people walk in the rain others just get wet.