A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success. – Ambrose Bierce Category: Persistence
The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. – Robert Bierstedt Category: Imagination
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! – Andre Gide Category: Change
Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form. – Allen Tate Category: Experience