"When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together."

-- Jeff Koons

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“I think when you come to Australia you immediately get the sense of fitness and taking care of yourself and being healthy, and it really shows.”
“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”

Source : "Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth". Book by Hermann Hesse , p. 123, 1919.
“Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.”
“Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike.”
“There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.”
“If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.”
“The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.”

Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee
“meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.”

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