Anger

“..wherever you are, you find the sun, a blade of grass, the spirals of the dragonfly. Courage consists of staying at home, close to nature, which could not care less about our disasters. Each grain of dust contains the soul of something marvellous. [Miró admonished art-critic w:Georges Duthuit ]”

“Lautrec was still satisfying his rather classical art-teacher Cormon in Paris. The unreal conventions of Cormon imposed and discouraged him, according to Henri Perruchot”

“The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage—anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.”

“Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.”

“Tuition costs are outrageous. Fortunately, they gave me a scholarship…so I only had to cover living expenses, books, etc., by working.”

“...In vain, I see, men worship Mahomet:<br />My sword hath sent millions of Turks to hell,<br />Slew all his priests, his kinsmen, and his friends,<br />And yet I live untouch'd by Mahomet.<br />There is a God, full of revenging wrath,<br />From whom the thunder and the lightning breaks,<br />Whose scourge I am, and him will I obey.”

“Her wrath is a devastating flood which no one can withstand.<br>A great watercourse, she abases those whom she despises.<br>The mistress, a hurin bird who lets no one escape.<br>Inana, a falcon preying on the gods.”

“For six days and six nights the winds blew, torrent and tempest and flood overwhelmed the world, tempest and flood raged together like warring hosts. When the seventh day dawned the storm from the south subsided, the sea grew calm, the, flood was stilled; I looked at the face of the world and there was silence, all mankind was turned to clay.”

“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”

“Optimism is true moral courage.”

“To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.”

“I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe … But there is something about building up a comradeship — that I still believe is the greatest of all feats — and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.”

““Optimism is true moral courage,” Shackleton said, a conviction he practiced daily as he whiled away his hours, always displaying his own towering “moral courage ” in the midst of his crew.”