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Quotes.
We enjoy including wonderful quotations throughout the site. We know that many
of you love to ponder on them further, so we're placing them all here on these pages,
and will add the new ones each month. Choose a group to read related quotes:


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  Sheldon Kopp   "Who has ever given as much trouble as we give ourselves."
  Pogo   "We have seen the enemy and he is us."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson   "Emerson "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
  Iyanla Vanzant   "Honey, how can you have self-esteem if you don't have a self?"
  Buddha   "All suffering is the result of the mind clinging to its unfortunate thoughts."
  Marcus Aurelius   "The soul becomes dyed by the colour of its thoughts."
  Shekinah Mountainwater   "We are the flow; we are the ebb; we are the weavers; we are the web."
  Leonardo da Vinci   "The five senses are the ministers of the soul."
  Chuang Yzu   "Last night I dreamt I was a butterfly. Today, I am a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
  Thomas Merton   "What can be gained from sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us
  from ourselves?"
  James Hillman   "I bear a uniqueness that asks to be lived and that is already present before it is lived."
  Eric Maisel   "With my life and my art I will manage great yes-saying. I will affirm my work, my relationships, and my   world, and I will affirm myself."
  W. S Gilbert   "You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve that opinion."
  J. W von Goethe   "Everybody wants to be somebody, but no one wants to grow."
  Rainer Maria Rilke   "We must assume our existence as broadly as we can; everything, even the unheard of, must be
  possible in it."
  Theodore Roethke   "God bless the roots! Body and soul are one."
  Robert Henri   "Self-acquaintance is a rare condition."
  Gunther Gerzso   "What is my identity? This question produces a kind of crisis in my thinking about my painting and myself."
  Buddha    "All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
  Stephen Nachmanovitch   "Underneath procrastination and fidgeting lies self-doubt."
  Dylan Thomas   "Someone is boring me . . . I think it is me."
  Francis Bacon   "I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being."
  Eric Maisel    "I will remain my ideal age inside, old enough to manage my affairs, young enough to work wildly and   passionately."
  Mark Twain    "Everyone is a moon and has a dark side that he never shows to anyone."
  Tennessee Williams    "I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled.
  I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect."
  Twyla Tharp    "If you force yourself to stretch a little, you will astonish yourself."
  Dame Margot Fonteyn    "Take your work seriously, but never yourself."
  Joyce Carol Oates     "My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted."
  Eric Maisel     "Mistakes are part of my landscape."
  Mark Twain     "We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves."
  John Boyle O'Reilly     "The red rose whispers of passion,
   And the white rose breathes of love.
   O, the red rose is a falcon,
   And the white rose is a dove."
  Carly Simon     "We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of
   our image."
  Gunther Gerzso     "What is my identity? This question produces a kind of crisis in my thinking about my painting and myself."
  Janice Rule     "I was--and I still am--inarticulate in my real life."
  Jean Iris Murdoch     "The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."
  Jean-Luc Godard     "Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."
  Gail Griffiths    " I desire to trust myself and have strength to be in my art world, not feeling I have to leave it to serve others."
  F. Nietzsche    "A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings."
  Arabian Proverb    "Arrogance diminishes wisdom."
  George Eliot    "He was like a rooster who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."
     

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