"Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens."

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Source : Susan Griffin (2001). “The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues”, Broadway

Susan Griffin

#Eye Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Self Quotes

“If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.”
“Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another, or even from one lake to another anywhere. A canoe trip has become simply a rite of oneness with certain terrain, a diversion off the field, an art performed not because it is a necessity but because there is value in the art itself.”

Source : John McPhee (1982). “The Survival of the Bark Canoe”, p.34, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.”
“My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.”
“It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.”
“I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?”
“Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.34, University of Chicago Press
“You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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