The Little Book Series
Volume 1
The Little Book of Good Advice
Luisa Rodrigues
(Work In Progress)
An Interesting Story | James Tissot (1836–1902) | National Gallery of Victoria
All you need to do is ask.
Always the trials precede the attainment.
As above, so below. As within, so without.
On the Thames| James Tissot (1836–1902)
As a door shuts, another door opens immediately.
As the twig is bent, the tree inclines.
Avoid negative thinking—it shuts off your good.
Hide and Seek | James Tissot (1836–1902) National Gallery of Art
Be free.
By attacking a thing, we give it power.
The Gallery of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth) | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Tate Britain
Call spades, spades.
Caring creates communication.
Concentration is the secret of power.
The Ball | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Musée d'Orsay
Desire a thing intensely enough and you are on the way to it.
Do as you would be done by.
Bad News | James Tissot (1836–1902) | National Museum of Wales
Do good, be positive and love God.
Portsmouth Dockyard | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Art UK
Don't leave for tomorrow what can be done today.
Don't let other people rock your boat.
Seaside | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Cleveland Museum of Art
Do what is naturally right.
Portrait of the Marquis and Marchioness of Miramon and their children | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Musée d'Orsay
Each for all and all for each.
Even our failures are a valuable part of our experience.
Every action has a reaction.
Waiting for the Ferry at the Falcon Tavern | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Speed Art Museum
Every man has made himself just what he is.
Examine your motives always.
Experience is an asset. We grow by pain as well as pleasure.
Faust and Marguerite in the garden | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Musée d'Orsay
Facts are facts. It's unwise to shut one’s eyes to simple facts.
Fair dealing covers the ground.
The farmer knows when to let a field lie fallow.
On the Thames (1876) | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Hepworth Wakefield Art Gallery, Wakefield, UK
Find a little more time each day for doing nothing at all.
For everything, give thanks!
A frightened dog will never scare away a robber.
October | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Montreal Museum of Arts
Giving opens the way for receiving.
The greatest law we have is love.
A Woman of Ambition (Political Woman) also known as The Reception | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Albright-Knox Art Gallery
The hardest road leads to the quickest and best results.
Honesty is the best policy.
The husk of the seed must be broken before the sprout can appear.
The Shop Girl | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Art Gallery of Ontario
I can do all things.
An ideal is a tendency.
The Tedious Story | James Tissot (1836–1902)
An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
If I receive true knowledge, I'll have power enough.
If one goes high enough, one may behold the inconceivable.
Tea | James Tissot (1836–1902) |Metropolitan Museum of Art
If one wants nothing, he has everything.
I like to pay my debts.
Chrysanthemums | James Tissot (1836–1902)
Imagination is potent.
It is pain that mellows the heart.
It is the traveller with an open mind who makes discoveries.
The Artists' Wives | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Chrysler Museum of Art
A joyous heart attracts joyous events.
The Circle of the Rue Royale | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Musée d'Orsay
Knowledge is the forerunner of power.
Two Sisters | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Musée d'Orsay
The law of life is the law of belief.
Learn to relax.
Let go and seek for nothing.
James Tissot (1836–1902)
Let go of urgency.
Life is so short.
Listen to the voice of intuition.
The Morning Ride | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Sotheby's
Live a brave and clean life.
Live and let live.
Look up!
The Fireplace | James Tissot (1836–1902)
Love for all that lives!
Love is the law of our being!
Love your enemies—that is the surest way to overcome them.
The Letter | James Tissot (1836–1902)
Make love the sole law of your life.
Make sacrifices.
A gentleman in a Railway Carriage | James Tissot (1836–1902)
A man seeks what he desires.
Moderation in all things!
Portrait of Sydney Isabella Milner-Gibson | James Tissot (1836–1902) | St Edmundsbury Museum
A new interest is a new lease of life.
No matter how bad it gets, remember it could have been worse.
Nothing can be achieved without time and patience.
Comtesse d’Yanville and her four children | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The object of life is life.
Observe fully. Communicate truthfully.
James Tissot (1836–1902)
Observe, observe. Observe.
Only give.
A Luncheon | James Tissot (1836-1902) | Roy Miles Fine Paintings
Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
Our dreaming is a kind of building.
Our work is our own.
Portrait of Miss Lloyd | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Tate Britain
Perseverance pays.
Practice on moods.
Prove before accepting anything.
Portrait of Marquise de Miramon, née, Thérèse Feuillant | James Tissot (1836–1902) | J. Paul Getty Museum
Respect brings respect.
Restraint, restraint!
Women of Paris (The Circus Lover) | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Museum of Fine Arts
Sacrifice for others and give to others what you most want for yourself.
Search and you will find.
The Captain's Daughter | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Southampton City Art Gallery
A seed sown today may bear fruit long hence.
See everything as it really is.
Kathleen Newton | James Tissot (1836–1902)
Serve if you hope to survive.
Strive on!
James Tissot (1836–1902)
The surest way to attract disasters is to imagine them.
Surrender. Give in. Let go. Let God.
On the Thames | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Take it easy—one day at a time.
Take more time to think.
A party of four people | James Tissot (1836–1902) | National Gallery of Canada
Tell and live your truth.
There is always a better way.
There is always more than one point of view on everything.
An aristocratic Parisian salon in the nineteenth century | James Tissot (1836–1902)
The thing we fear attacks us sooner or later.
Think carefully before acting.
To posit is to create.
In Full Sunlight | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Metropolitan Museum of Art
To receive, one must give. That is the law.
Truly, practice makes perfect.
Trust your intuition—it points the way.
Portrait of Mrs Catherine Smith Gill and Two of her Children | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Walker Art Gallery
Unlimitedness—that is the key.
Still on Top| James Tissot (1836–1902) | Auckland Art Gallery
Watch the changing colours of a cloud.
We all make what we live in.
Ballon shipboard| James Tissot (1836–1902) | Tate Gallery
We attract what we fear.
We can all try harder.
The bridesmaid| James Tissot (1836–1902)
We have a right to do about as we please.
We lose to gain again.
We work too much. Have the leisure to dream and to realise your dream.
The Confidence | James Tissot (1836–1902)
What you condemn in others, you attract to yourself.
What you give to another, you give to yourself.
What you resist persists.
Young women looking at Japanese objects | James Tissot (1836–1902) | Cincinnati Art Museum
What you set your heart upon must come about.
Where Love is, God is.
