"In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere."

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Dejan Stojanovic

#Art Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Trying Quotes

“If you've got nothing else, passion will get you through.”
“Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.”
“If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.”
“Everything stinks till itâ€™s finished.”
“As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed to Society. It was not good for Man at first to be alone; his nature is social, having various Affections, Propensities and Passions, which respect Society, and cannot be indulged without a social Intercourse.”
“Kirtan is food for the spirit, a life raft of song.”
“No study is possible on the battlefield.”

Source : Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”
“You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness.”

Source : "Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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