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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#bricks #cost #customers #environment #maintaining

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#barrel #bottom #felt #get #i

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#genuine #hanging #known #like #look

لمَ أصبت صدري بخنجر الخذلان ؟ بعدما كنت أنت وطني الآمن الذي أفر إليه هاربة خوفاً وفزعاً !! لمَ أهديتني رداء الحزن ؟ في حين كنت بحاجة ليدك لتحتضنني بدفء وتدثرني من صقيع أوجاعي ..! ↗

— نجلاء حسن

#faith #heart #love #reading #success

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#anxiety #background #clinical #collapse #depression

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns. ↗

— Arthur Cohn

#guns #stick #you #your

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart. ↗

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

#blessed #day #each #gift #giving

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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