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"And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
— T. S. Eliot

tags: arrive, death, exploration, hope, journey, place
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"When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy."
— Basho Matsuo

tags: composition, creating, haiku, japanese, monks, poetry, zen
2 people liked it

"Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in."
— Mark Vonnegut (Armageddon in Retrospect)

tags: belief, spiritual, vonnegut, writing
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"Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.""
— Santoka Taneda (Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda)

tags: composition, creating, haiku, japanese, monks, poetry, zen
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
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"I write because I am human, separate and mortal."
— Ruth Bavetta

tags: human, mortal, writing
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""Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love." "
— Laura Kasischke

tags: love, struggle, success, talent, writing
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"None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith."
— Paulo Coelho (Brida)

tags: faith, trust
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"When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way."
— Paulo Coelho (Brida)

tags: disappointment, life, mistakes
46 people liked it

""... What is God?
He is the breath inside the breath."

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— Kabir

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""I release the pain,
of a thousand tortured souls.""
— Karen Anderson Miller

tags: pain, souls, torture
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"Spring is nature's way of saying, Let's party!"
— Robin P. Williams

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"I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm."
— Paulo Coelho (The Pilgrimage)

tags: child, childhood, enthusiasm, tears
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"We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body."
— Paulo Coelho (The Pilgrimage)

tags: dreams, nourishment, soul
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"What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity."
— Paulo Coelho (The Pilgrimage)

tags: dignity, vanity
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"Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning."
— Paulo Coelho (The Pilgrimage)

tags: companion, death, life, meaning
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"Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be.
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— Harley King

tags: butterfly, gifts, story
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"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

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""Nothing stays the same and nothing changes. What is old today will be new tomorrow. What is new today will be forgotten tomorrow.""
— Harley King

tags: change
2 people liked it

"There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: creeds, doubt, faith, religion
3 people liked it

"All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."
— Marcel Duchamp

tags: act, art, artist, creative
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"My advice is that one should always know if one is dancing for the joy of it, an audience or a puppet master, what the music is and how fast it's playing. It's also good to remember that it is not always neccessary to be dancing at all."
— Karen Anderson Miller

tags: dancing, joy
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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: happiness
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"So much is buried in our lives that we forget what we have learned."
— Harley King

tags: buried, forgetfulness, learn, lessons, lives
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"Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find flowers or think of the moon. This is the essence of haiku. Go beyond the restrictions of your era, forget about purpose or meaning, separate yourself from historical limitations—there you will find the essence of true art, religion, and science."
— Santoka Taneda (Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda)

tags: composition, creating, haiku, japanese, monks, poetry, zen
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"That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

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"A line is a dot that went for a walk.
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— Paul Klee

tags: act, art, artist, creative
2 people liked it

"God steals my soul."
— Harley King

tags: god, soul
1 person liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
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"Our flesh is a gift of laughter."
— Harley King

tags: flesh, gift, humor, laughter
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"I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer."
— Henri Matisse

tags: buddhist, god, prayer
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"I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions."
— Henri Matisse

tags: gift, gratefulness, healing, illness, joy, operation, suffering, surgery
1 person liked it

"Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, door, painting, picture, stepping, stone
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"Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: act, art, artist, creative
2 people liked it

"Everyone living in our time is a gatekeeper, not by choice, but by virtue of the age in which we are all born."
— Kobina Amissah Fynn (Gatekeepers - The Quest for Clues to an Age-Old Riddle)

tags: inspirational
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"I feel the healing
hands of God
touch my heart
and kiss my soul."
— Harley King

tags: god, hands, healing, heart, soul, touch
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"To be nobody but yourself –
in a world which is doing its best,
night and day, to make you like everybody else –
means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight,
and never stop fighting."
— E. E. Cummings

tags: be, identity, poetry, self, wisdom, yourself
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