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"one who worthily invents must be in earnest..."
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"It is more difficult to remain happy or positive when ... surrounded by or involved with those who want something different from you than you want to give them. But ... while you may have an experience that only lasts five or ten minutes, and while that experience may be unpleasant and uncomfortable, the majority of your negative emotion comes ( Read more... ) -
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"We become original because we become something specific: an origin from which work flows."
Julia Cameron - from The Artist's Way -
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"When one makes decisions involving another person, for important things like making love, or unimportant things like taking a walk around the plaza, one needs to realize that these are voluntary decisions one makes for things to do in the company of someone else, not "for" but "with" the other person ( Read more... ) -
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"your action is meant to be a way in which you enjoy what you have created through thought."
"Action that is inspired from aligned thought is joyful action. Action that is offered from a place of contradicted thought is hard work that is not satisfying and does not yield good results."
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"A composed and unobtrusive self-sustainment was noticeable in Daniel Doyce - a calm knowledge that what was true must remain true."
Charles Dickens - from Little Dorritt -
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"Have not all poetic truths been stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final."
"The novel lies in saying something happened that did not. It must, therefore, contain uncontradictable truth to warrant the original lie."
Elizabeth Bowen -
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"Oh! It is hard to take to heart the lesson that such deaths will teach, but let no man reject it, for it is one that all must learn, and is a mighty, universal Truth. When Death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to ( Read more... )