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The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the read more
The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. -Kahlil Gilbran.
Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from read more
Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. -Willa Cather.
Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little read more
Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little bit unsure, careful. It's funny.
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.
