Gustav Stickley Quotes

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.

I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will and originality. Since anything physical can be mental, that island can be your home. Turn off the electromagnetic waves being forced upon you, the countless invisible forces coming at you all the time.

I want to be where your heart is home I want to see you with the light in the morning There's never been such a beautiful warning to me, to me

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

My house, my house, though thou art small, Thou art to me the Escurial.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

'Going home' is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the reality of our beauty and our pain. From this acceptance of ourselves, we can accept others as they are and we can see our common humanity.

Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.

When you design someone's house, it's actually painful. I never say, "This house will be a total reflection of you and any defects in it will make you look defective." But people do expect their homes to be reflections of themselves. So what I say is, "Just pretend this is your eighth home. By then you won't care."

Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.

If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.