"Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names."

-- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#Names Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“Only psychos and shamans create their own reality”
“I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can do it. I think it is a groundswell that needs to continue to be bolstered from all ends.”
“You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.”
“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.”
“While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecatio n, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.”
“Above all there's a love which is real, the ultimate love. We merge not only physically, but mentally and spiritually, in arc-line, aura and subtle body. We amalgamate with each other. That is real love.”
“Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.”
“Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with many landmarks, a life which is much subdivided when those subdivisions are not of the same kind, and when new and diverse interests, impressions, and labours follow each other in swift and distinct successions, seems the most long...”

Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

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