Praising Quotes

• What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear. Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed".

  

  Rumi
  • Himself
  • Criticizing
  • Praising

• ... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Love
  • Science

• The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.

  

  Calvin Seerveld
  • Name
  • Lord
  • Artistry

• For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

  

  Eric Jerome Dickey
  • Change
  • Occupation
  • Expecting