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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature,
and it has often been said by philosophers,
that nature is the will of God.
And I prefer to say that nature
is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever man might build, could never
express or reflect more than he was.
He could record neither more nor less
than he had learned of life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Get the habit of analysis -
analysis will in time enable synthesis
to become your habit of mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Think simple" as my old master used to say -
meaning reduce the whole of its parts
into the simplest terms,
getting back to first principles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything.
It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.
Hill and house should live together
each the happier for the other.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The present is the ever moving shadow
that divides yesterday from tomorrow.
In that lies hope.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Regard it as just as desirable to build
a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
An architect's most useful tools are
an eraser at the drafting board,
and a wrecking bar at the site.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.
He must be a great original interpreter
of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Space is the breath of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man.
There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Simplicity and repose are qualities
that measure the true value of any work of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A great architect is not made by way of a brain
nearly so much as he is made by way
of a cultivated, enriched heart.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Lack of culture means what it has always meant:
ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Life always rides in strength to victory,
not through internationalism...
but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use
and a finer sense of comfort,
expressed in organic simplicity.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city
is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic buildings are the strength
and lightness of the spiders' spinning,
buildings qualified by light,
bred by native character to environment,
married to the ground.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If it keeps up, man will atrophy
all his limbs but the push-button finger.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60.
They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe totally in a Capitalist System,
I only wish that someone would try it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students,
and turns them into prunes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga
and the civilization that wore it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The architect must be a prophet...
a prophet in the true sense of the term...
if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons
out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The architect should strive continually to simplify;
the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered
that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A free America... means just this:
individual freedom for all, rich or poor,
or else this system of government we call democracy
is only an expedient to enslave man
to the machine and make him like it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
We attract abundance when we ask from a compassionate heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
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