"Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face."

-- H. G. Wells

#Noses Quotes #Faces Quotes #Chaos Quotes

“The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other peopleâ€™s expectations.”

Source : Julia Cameron (1997). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.29, Penguin
“Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.”
“I've never trusted collaborations, because most people in this world are not closers. They don't finish what they start; they don't live what they dream; they sabotage their own progress because they're afraid they won't find what they seek.”
“She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed.”
“In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.”
“If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.”
“Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.”
“Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.”

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