Quotes From the Mirror

(David Miller Fine Art) — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 02:13:37 GMT

A generation ago as a father I learned early to see small children as researchers rather than bestial creatures needing to be trained, and that understanding has helped me in my work as an educator. - Rick Ackerly

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A new philosophy, a new way of life is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for, and acquired with much patience and great effort. - Fyodor Dostoyevksy

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A world where intelligence is measured by the ability to amass information that has no context or purpose save its own propagation but is nonetheless serviced slavishly by humanity. And do you know the hard truth of why information has come to dominate our species, Gideon? Because the human brain adores it - it plays with the bits of information it receives, arranging them and storing them like a delighted child. But it loathes examining them deeply, doing the hard work of assembling them into integrated systems of understanding. Yet that work is what produces knowledge, Gideon. The rest is simply - recreation. - From Killing Time, by Caleb Carr

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All around the world we are gazing skyward waiting for God, never realizing that God is waiting for us. - From The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown

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All beings have value in accordance with their willingness to embrace and embody all. - David Miller

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All dreams spin out from the same web. - Hopi Proverb

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All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. - Kabir

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All things are all things. - David Miller

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All things exist within all things. - David Miller

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An unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates

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And how by moonlight you were made To study most the surf's unyielding Patience though it seems a waste. - Derek Walcott

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Any group of people that wants you to hate another group of people, is not composed of rational people. - David Miller

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As unkindness has no remedy at law, let its avoidance be with you a point of honor. - Hosea Ballou

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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. - Dalai Lama

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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. - Confucius

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Better a cold truth, than a warm lie. - David Miller

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Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival. - Octavio Paz

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Black and white photography erases time from the equation. - Jason Peterson

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Bliss begins with the breath. We breathe in, and accept all that is new. We breathe out, and release all that has passed. - Sara Wiseman

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Civilization means a society based upon the opinion of civilians. It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained. - Winston Churchill

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Creativity is intelligence having fun. - Albert Einstein

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Dance is a conversation between body and soul. - Jean Claude Sanchez

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Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what no one has thought. - Albert Szent-Györgyi

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Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance. - Verna Myers

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Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth. - Jelaluddin Rumi

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Do one thing every day that scares you. - Mary Schmich

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Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? - William Shakespeare

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Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the entire Earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. - Thich Nhat Hanh

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Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is. - Kofi Annan

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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind, with an open one. - Malcolm S. Forbes

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Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. - John Sterling

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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. - Adyashanti

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Every part of the car is the car. Each part is finished as if it will be the focal point of the car. - Chip Foose

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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius

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Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is Physics. - Albert Einstein

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Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso

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Facts get recorded; stories get remembered. - Lewis Schiff

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. - Albert Einstein

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Fog makes the world a painting obscure even close trees are half unseen. But a lonesome crow won't stop calling: he objects to being in this dream. - Deng Ming-Dao

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For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. - Audrey Hepburn

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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. - Carl Sagan

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For the good man to realize that it is better to be whole than good is to enter on a straight and narrow path compared to which his previous rectitude was flowery license. - John Middleton Murry

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For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest. - The Talmud

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For those who are awake, the universe is One. - Heraclitus

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Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life. - Mark Twain

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Growth feels good after, not during. - Dan Rockwell

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Having seen the fall, consider the rise. What harm ever came to the setting Sun or Moon? - Jelaluddin Rumi

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Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. - Buddha

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How harmful over-specialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points, and leaves it bleeding. - Hari Selden in Prelude to Foundation, by Isaac Asimov

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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? - William Shakespeare

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Winston Churchill

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I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep. - Leonardo da Vinci

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I cannot imagine a form of beauty which is not united with melancholy. - Sandra Bartocha

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I hate flowers. I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move. - Georgia O’Keeffe

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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

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I know you’re tired, but come. This is the way. - Jelaluddin Rumi

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I miss those days when power was something one had over oneself. - David Miller

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I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. - Thomas Jefferson

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I paint flowers so they will not die. - Frida Kahlo

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I shut my eyes in order to see. - Paul Gauguin

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I think ninety-nine times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, And the truth comes to me. - Albert Einstein

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I think of writing as a performing art. - Camille Paglia

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I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe. - Amy Sherald

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I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. - From A Haunted House and Other Short Stories, by Virginia Woolf

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I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them. - George Washington

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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. - Anaïs Nin

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I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we were walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says "Do you want to see me become her?" I didn’t know what she meant but I just said "Yes" - and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before. - Amy Greene, Wife of Marilyn’s Personal Photographer, Milton Greene

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If science is a “commitment to truth” shall we cite all the historical non-truths perpetuated by scientists? Of course not. It’s not science vs. philosophy. It’s science and philosophy. Elevate your thinking and consciousness. When you measure, include the measurer. - MC Hammer

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If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. - Lao Tzu

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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it. - Zora Neale Hurston

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If you can see, you can also take pictures. But learning to see may take a long time. - Unknown

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If you find god with great ease, perhaps it is not god you have found. - Thomas Merton

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If you have time to breathe, you have time to meditate. - Ajahn Chah

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If you understand, things are as they are. If you do not understand, things are as they are. - Zen Proverb

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If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done. - Thomas Jefferson

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Imaginative people, perhaps the fewest of all, question the entire frame of reference. - From Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century, by Alvin Toffler

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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. - Anna Quindlen

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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing. - Thomas Carlyle

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In one drop of water, is found all of the secrets of the oceans. - Kahlil Gibran

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In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. - Anne Frank

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In the terms of mathematics, existence is far less a difference, than it is a sum. - David Miller

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It goes without saying that as soon as one cherishes the thought of winning the contest or displaying one's skill in technique, swordsmanship is doomed. - Takano Shigeyoshi

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It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. - Alfred Adler

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It is part of the photographer’s job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. - Bill Brandt

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It's much easier to say the Civil War was about money, when your ancestors weren't the currency. - Al Letson

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It’s about recognizing that we don’t know what a healthy police force looks like because we can’t imagine a world where we actually take care of our social ills instead of policing them. - Bridget Eileen Rivera

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It’s all about falling in love... with yourself. And sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit. - Eartha Kitt

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It’s okay to live a life others don’t understand. - Jenna Woginrich

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Judging the value of another human being by the amount of sunlight they reflect is quite possibly the most idiotic thing that human beings have ever done. - David Miller

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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. - Benjamin Franklin

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Know ye not that ye are gods? - From The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown

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Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. - Zen Proverb

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Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else. - Leonardo da Vinci

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Learning is a learned behavior. - Ulrich Boser

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Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. - Lord Mansfield

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light in darkness
darkness in light
good in meekness
beauty in might

grace in courage
wisdom in flight
easily spoken
seldom touched

compassionate destruction
and the pride within the fall
are perhaps the most elusive
of the lessons of the law

all in all

my lover and friend
so easily spoken

- David Miller

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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. - Jean Cocteau

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Listen to the silence. It has so much to say. - Jelaluddin Rumi

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Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming about. - Alice Walker

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. - Wayne Dyer

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Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself. - Miles Davis

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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. - Nelson Mandela

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Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. - Sigmund Freud

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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. - Oscar Wilde

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No matter where you stand in the spectrum of gender, I implore you to embrace your intelligence, confidence, and power. I also implore you to embrace the divine feminine within you. Humanity needs it, and you are not complete without it. - David Miller

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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No one heals himself by wounding another. - St. Ambrose of Milan

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Not my circus, not my monkeys. - Polish Proverb

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Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. - Robert G. Ingersoll

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Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed. - Erastus Wiman

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Objective truth exists. The stars could not shine without it. - David Miller

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Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations. - George Santayana

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Once in a while it hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told they should. - Alan Keightley

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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. - Woodrow Wilson

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Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. - Woodrow Wilson

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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear of man to do justice to them. - Berthold Auerbach

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. - Jelaluddin Rumi

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you. - Abraham Hicks

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Perhaps we are the same person. Perhaps we have no limits. Perhaps we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly and magnificently. - Ingmar Bergman

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Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see, and almost everything to do with the way you see them. - Elliott Erwitt

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Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. - Albert Einstein

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Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. - Leonardo da Vinci

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock in a thunderstorm. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. - Harold Bloom

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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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Rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace. - Peter Heller, The Painter

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Science teaches the value of rational thought as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that the lessons are all true. - Richard Feynman

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Self care is my revolution. - David Miller

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to. - Oscar Wilde

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Silence is essential. We need silence. Just as much as we need air. - Thich Nhat Hanh

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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. - Thomas Carlyle

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Silence is the language of God. All else is poor translation. - Jelaluddin Rumi

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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. - George Sand

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So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story. - Sarah Dessen

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Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest. - Ashleigh Brilliant

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Stop looking for the Light. Be It. - Lori Moreno

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Suffering is not a superpower. - Ashley C. Ford

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Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Talk to yourself as you would to someone you love. - Brené Brown

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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. - Chinese Proverb

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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialog, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation. - Michelle Obama

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The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you. - Jelaluddin Rumi

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The best way to pay for a lovely moment, is to enjoy it. - Richard Bach

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

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The brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy. - Carl Sagan

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The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task. - Buddha

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The dark doesn’t destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows. - Brene Brown

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The day you decide that you are more interested in being aware of your thoughts than you are in the thoughts themselves... that is the day you will find your way out. - Michael Singer

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The experiment showed that when women really go orgasmic, areas of the brain controlling emotion and fear are de-activated. - Katie Morgan

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The eye of the master will do more work than his hands. - Benjamin Franklin

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The goal of my work is to create images that portray intelligence, confidence, and sensuality, and which exist without the slightest hint of reservation or apology. - David Miller

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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. - Robert Hughes

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The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The inquiry into a dream is another dream. - Lord Halifax

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The Law of Existence: All

The Inclusive Derivative of The Law of Existence: All Things Exist Within All Things

The Reflective Derivative of The Law of Existence: All Things Are All Things

The Mathematical Derivative of The Law of Existence: x = all

- David Miller

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