It is like the edge of a sword.
I rejoice to walk on it.
I weep when I slip.
God’s word is:
‘He who strives never perishes.’
I have implicit faith in that promise.
Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail athousand times.
I shall not lose faith.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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Here are some delightful and wise quotations from the works of Marcel Proust :-
The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like
the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an
accustomed movement.
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or
spare us.
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“If something can be changed, work to change it. If it cannot, why worry, be upset, and complain?”
~ Shantideva
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from
someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for
applause. (George Matthew Adams)
“One who sees himself as everything is fit to be guardian of the world… One who loves himself as everyone
is fit to be teacher of the world.” ~ Tao
We weep when light does not reach our hearts. We wither like fields if someone close does not rain their
kindness upon us. (Meister Eckhart)
“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”
— Albert Einstein
"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle.
This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
~Albert Camus
“A line is a dot that went for a walk." (Paul Klee, Swiss Artist, 1879-1940)
“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible”. Paul Klee (18.12.1879 - 29.06.1940)
"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of
their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." - Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Pablo Picasso (Spanish Artist and Painter. 1881-1973)
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all
is said and done? A painter has only one language."
"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his
subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his
normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art." (E. M. Forster)
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