
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Variant: Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
Source: Perfect Match
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
“If you want something you've never had you have to be willing to do something you've never done.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 97
On Kate Bush
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Context: Creativity comes from the freedom to fail. And freedom to fail comes from experimentation, and that's what gives something its individuality. And, you know, I think her courage, which is the positive way of interpreting it, or bloody-mindedness, which is the negative, is part of what gives her real value as an artist.
“You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.”
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 58
“For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed