J.D. Grubb > J.D.'s Quotes

“Every great artist is a man who has freed himself . . . Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a "universal" without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.”
― Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“An artist needs a broken world in order to have pieces to shape into art. . . . Comfort is death to art.”
― Chaim Potok, The Gift of Asher Lev

“As we begin to acknowledge our own inner shadow, we become more tolerant of the shadow in others.”
― Walter Wink, Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination

“In the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“At any minute it is what we are and are doing, not what we plan to be and do that counts.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“The only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point—and does not break.”
― G.K. Chesterton