"... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing."

-- Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

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“It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.”
“No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo”
“Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.”
“The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.”

Source : Anna Swinbourne, James Ensor, Susan Marie Canning, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2009). “James Ensor”, p.22, The Museum of Modern Art
“Feel the Aliveness within your Body. That anchors You in the Now.”
“We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.”

Source : Selma James (1983). “The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys”, Falling Wall Pr
“It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.24
“Life is all about being true to yourself and what you believe in”

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