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Peter Matthiessen has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,…
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Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for…
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Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.
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I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the…
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This world is painted on a wild dark metal
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There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes.…
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My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.
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Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions?…
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The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once…
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I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white,…
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Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted…
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Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about…
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care…
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How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to…
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I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
— Suzanne Vega
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I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.
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It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I…
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I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool…
— Peter Matthiessen
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Whenever I meet someone, I try to imagine her wearing an invisible sign that says: MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT. I respond to…
— Mary Kay Ash
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