"In separateness only does love learn definition."

-- Robert Penn Warren

#Doe Quotes #Definitions Quotes

“But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking at dataâ€”something inside you has to crack to let in the light so your eyes and brain and heart can adjust properly.”
“I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and text should, together, create the pattern, rather than simply run parallel.”
“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”
“For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an â€˜ism becomes so involved in reaction against other â€˜isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.”
“A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.”
“Sometimes two people could look at the same picture and see different images. Position determines perspective.”

Source : Nikki Turner (2010). “Natural Born Hustler”, p.109, One World
“Suspicion follows close on mistrust.”
“Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent devotion, whatever occurs is perceived as his blessing. If we simply practice with this constantly present devotion, this is prayer itself. When all thoughts are imbued with devotion to the guru, there is a natural confidence that this will take care of whatever may happen. All forms are the guru, all sounds are prayer, and all gross and subtle thoughts arise as devotion. Everything is spontaneously liberated in the absolute nature, like knots untied in the sky.”

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