"Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind."

-- Magdalena Abakanowicz

#Dream Quotes #Art Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.”
“The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.”

Source : "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 7: "Mother-Right", 1971.
“I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.”
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

Source : The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)
“I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.”
“You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been.”
“Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.”
“My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.”

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