"There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary."

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Source : Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.29, Harper Collins

Ming-Dao Deng

#Lying Quotes #Sacred Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.”
“I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.”
“The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.”
“When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture similar to the dynamic and musical architecture achieved by the Futurist musician Pratella. Architecture is found in the movement of colours, of smoke from a chimney and in metallic structures, when they are expressed in states of mind which are violent and chaotic.”

Source : "The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells" by Carlo Carra (1913), as translated in: Mary Ann Caws "Manifesto: A Century of Isms," p. 203, 2001.
“The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.”
“I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.”
“Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.”
“We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.”

Source : Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, Broadview Press

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