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“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
— Japanese proverb
“Do the difficult things while they are easy,
and do the great things while they are small.”
— Tao Te Ching
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
— The Prophet
“Where there is love there is life.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“He trains thus: ‘I shall breathe in experiencing the whole body.’
He trains thus: ‘I shall breathe out experiencing the whole body.’”
“The man of virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
— Confucius
“Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness… meaning at once the particular and the universal, the individual and the cosmic.”
— D.H. Lawrence
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.
“This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.“
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
— Leonard Cohen
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.”
— Colossians 3:23
“For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.”
— Maya Angelou
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
— Romeo and Juliet
“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also much more than that. So are we all.”
— James Baldwin
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Let us work without theorizing; it is the only way to make life bearable.”
— Candide
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”
— Jackson Pollock
“The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.”
— James Baldwin
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
— Michelangelo
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
— Claude Monet
“Philosophy is written in this grand book—I mean the universe—which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written.
It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures.”
— Galileo
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
— Albert Einstein
