Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood – or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
ZELDA FITZGERALDIn the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
COCO CHANEL -
We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONE -
If you depend on God’s grace there is no such thing as impossible.
SRI CHINMOY -
Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
SHERYL SANDBERG -
A man really determines himself by what he does.
VIN SCULLY -
I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It’s training the owner that takes longer.
BARBARA WOODHOUSE -
Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
BEN OKRI -
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
DUKE ELLINGTON -
What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
AGNES DE MILLE -
As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
ADRIENNE RICH -
In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.
BERNARD LONERGAN -
About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.
ROBERT GRAVES -
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Variants include “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS -
We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
ADYASHANTI