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I doubt if he ever confronted and acknowledged his own deeper motivations, except when they were as pure as spring water. ↗


— Dan Simmons


#motivational

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind. ↗


— Jonathan Edwards


#nature #nature

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it. ↗


— Jean-Paul Sartre


#sartre #nature

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious minute of "world history"- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die. ↗


— Friedrich Nietzsche


#philosophy #nature

Only when man cornered, potential forced to appear. ↗


— Toba Beta


#cornered #forced #human #natural #potential

There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was always fraught with possibilities. ↗


— Michael Ondaatje


#potential #romantic-potential #sexual-tension #romantic

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people. ↗


— Winifred Gallagher


#attention #creative #experiential #focus #instrumental

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121) ↗


— Edward Conze


#words #scripture

he who is greedy is always in want ↗


— Horace


#greed #satisfaction #wisdom #satisfaction

Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment. ↗


— John O'Donohue


#potential #soul #danger






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