"To obsess too virulently is to walk alone……" — Eric Maisel
"To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity."
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100 Quotes by Eric Maisel
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To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of…
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Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love…
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Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers…
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Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
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Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt…
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Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because…
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Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect…
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An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.
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The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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