"Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you."

-- Rufus Wainwright

#Philosophy Quotes #Soul Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.”
“Great lives never go out; they go on.”
“The Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine Will; sets the Kingdom of God within us; gives us pure lips, and a pure heart with which to glorify his holy name”
“Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.”
“The U.S.A. has become a nation of determined spectators, willing to watch someone else perform.”

Source : Sybil Leek (1972). “ESP--The magic within you”, Abelard-Schuman Ltd
“The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
“Be prepared to reinvent yourself. Be prepared to go out on a limb occasionally, and be prepared to do the things that you feel strongly about”
“Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.”

Source : "Every Piece has a Backstory". Art21 Interview, art21.org. 2008.

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