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To me physical beauty is not the issue, vibrational beauty is and the most beautiful people I meet are those who are radiating the love and wisdom of the Divine force that breathes them.
Jasmuheen
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Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.
James Sallis
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The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.
Rebecca Solnit
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Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,
Marilynne Robinson
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A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.
Edward Dahlberg
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
Agnes Repplier
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I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.
Caroline Knapp
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Magic is what happens when you have encountered the Divine. It is the life-altering experiences of connecting to the divinity that dwells within yourself and in the world.
Phyllis Curott
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Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.
Henry Jenkins
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Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.
Hope Edelman
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Is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?
Diane Johnson
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Life is shapeless, but art, as everybody knows, is shaped.
Stanley Elkin
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Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).
George Saunders
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I like to think of landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes, under my feet. To see and know a place is a contemplative act. It means emptying our minds and letting what is there, in all its multiplicity and endless variety, come in.
Gretel Ehrlich
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Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art.
Archibald Alison
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Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.
Allen Carr
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… far greater Advantages would come to pass amongst Christians, if they would cease from Contention, Oppression, and (what tends and disposes them thereunto,) the killing of Beasts, and eating their Flesh and Blood; and in a short time humane murthers, and devilish feuds and cruelties among each other, would abate, and perhaps scarce have a being amongst them.
Thomas Tryon
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I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.
Harriet Doerr
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Fish were different 35-odd years ago, when I was a kid, and I would often visit fish markets no matter where I was. By and large, what we would see would be entirely wild fish. Forty-odd years ago, everything we ate from the sea was wild. Pretty much everything. Today almost half of what we eat is farmed. So it's a huge, huge shift.
Paul Greenberg
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In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.
Tatyana Tolstaya
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Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.
Barbara Holland
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Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.
Harry Crews
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I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.
Jim Harrison
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The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off woman's true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female spirit, mind, creativity and sexuality exist anywhere in a powerful way it is here, among lesbian-feminists.
Janice Raymond
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Seeing' as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested in whatever surrounds you.
Rolf Potts
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