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A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the… — David A. Cooper
Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering. — G I Gurdjieff
Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my… — Pablo Picasso
Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But why? For no… — Natalie Goldberg
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of… — Cornell Woolrich
In my heart I mean well. But if you help me to grow, then what I have in my heart will begin to show. — Unknown Author
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor… — Thomas Jefferson
Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of… — ZZ Packer
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before… — Tom Robbins
The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities,… — Edward Robert Harrison
I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain… — William Morris Hunt
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin. — Lucretius
If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world,… — Bertrand Russell
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And… — Joyce Cary
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it. — Bernard Levin
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. — Robert H. Jackson
The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution… — Maurice Nicoll
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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