"Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit."

-- Karlfried Graf Durckheim

#Art Quotes #Flower Quotes #Fall Quotes

“What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!”
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
“At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.”
“Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.”

Source : "Jake Shimabukuro On His Ukulele Heroes, ‘Rolling In The Deep,’ And His Dream Song To Cover". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.
“I still love a variety of kinds of music.”
“The simpler the assignment, the more difficult the solution.”

Source : Wolfgang Weingart (2000). “Typography /[Wolfgang Weingart].”, p.89, Springer Science & Business Media
“I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.”
“Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?”

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