Do whatever you do intensely.
—Robert Henri
Topics: Concentration, Focus
To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
—Robert Henri
Topics: Rest, Happy
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
—Robert Henri
Topics: Happiness
Don’t worry about your originality. You couldn’t get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
—Robert Henri
Topics: Originality
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
—Robert Henri
Topics: Science
Cherish your emotions and never undervalue them.
—Robert Henri
Topics: Instincts
Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money’s worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.
—Robert Henri
Topics: Criticism
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
—Robert Henri
Topics: Water
All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one’s faculties.
—Robert Henri
Topics: Success
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
—Robert Henri
Topics: Thought, Thinking, Thoughts
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