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| | The practice of awareness doesn’t say don’t weave your world. That’s what we’re hardwired to do. The practice of awareness says don’t grasp it too tightly, don’t be too convinced.
—Paul Haller |
| | I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
—Leonard Cohen |
| | There are a lot of kinds of beauty.
—Rebecca Solnit |
| | I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.
—Rebecca Solnit |
| | I've always believed that shape is something that has no price.
—Olivier Theyskens |
| | If I were asked to say what distinguishes an artistic temperament from any other, I'd say that it's a fundamental sense that the project of being alive is something peculiar, little understood.
—Mark Doty |
| | It is not the answer that enlightens but the question.
—Eugene Ionesco |
| | It isn't smart to spurn beauty, it doesn't help us see more clearly; it just makes art uninspiring.
—David Ward |
| | Joy is that kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.
—David Steindl-Rast |
| | Memory is nothing else but a tenderness of the brain, disposed?to receive and preserve that, which the imagination apprehendeth.
—Juan Huarte |
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