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- Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we think of the…
- When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to…
- As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.
- My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will…
- Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
- Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.
- The inner boy in a messed-up family may keep on being shamed, invaded, disappointed, and paralyzed for years and years. "I am a victim," he…
- In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle