"art is the pulse of a nation."

-- Gertrude Stein

#Art Quotes #Pulse Quotes #Art Is Quotes

“You live it forward, but understand it backward.”

Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.11, Random House India
“Youâ€™re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. Youâ€™re alone, so you think itâ€™s a vast, magnificent panorama. You havenâ€™t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of Godâ€™s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep”
“It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.”

Source : "Arenas opens up after lengthy hiatus from league, media". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. February 20, 2012.
“At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.”
“I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.”
“My life is routine. I wake up early in the morning. I brush my teeth. I sit on the floor of the cell I do not go to breakfast. I stare at a gray cement wall. I keep my legs crossed my back straight my eyes forward. I take deep breaths in and out, in and out, and I try not to move. I sit for as long as I can I sit until everything hurts I sit until everything stops hurting I sit until I lose myself in the gray wall I sit until my mind becomes as blank as the gray wall. I sit and I stare and I breathe. I sit and I stare. I breathe.”
“I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film and I think I am growing with each movie. And I think it's important because you need to strive to better yourself.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The relationship between human and animal is wholly symbiotic. The person needs the animal for comfort and companionship, and the animal needs the love and caring of the human. It is a classic "win-win" situation. It sounds simple - and it is. That is why it works so well. In most cases, it will be remarkably spiritually uplifting to both human and animal.”

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