Corita Kent
13 quotes
Biography
"Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries."
"Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself."
"That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness."
"It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness."
"Consider everything an experiment."
"Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make."
"Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while."
"To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way."
"Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of."
"Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous."
"Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots."
"Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman."
"Groceries became a revelation: the people coming out with bundles of food. It's all like a great ceremony, and the whole drudgery of shopping has become my inspiration."