"My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth."

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

#Shining Quotes #Growth Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.”
“It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind of separates me from the common man in a way that I don't wish to be, so craftsperson makes me feel a bit more connected.”
“Humility is not weakness, but strength under control”
“Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.”

Source : "Atheism: Questions and Answers". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1980.
“[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.”
“I've worked on high visibility shows that weren't always the best, and low visibility shows that I love but that didn't have the PR behind them.”
“[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler].... It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.”

Source : "Argument Against the Writs of Assistance". "Argument Against the Writs of Assistance" by James Otis Jr., 1761.
“Who are the advertising men kidding, besides the European tourist? Between the tired, sad, gentle faces of the subway riders and the grinning Holy Families of the Ad-Mass, there exists no possibility of even a wishful identification.”

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