"We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire."

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Source : Caryll Houselander (1945). “The Flowering Tree”

Caryll Houselander

#Grace Quotes #Desire Quotes #Complacency Quotes

“The beauty of every experience you have is that hopefully you'll learn something from it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I think that money has changed my sport.”
“Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.”
“The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.”
“Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.”
“Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.”
“We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing...”
“They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.”

Source : Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.35, Hol Art Books

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