"If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless."

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Nancy Lancaster

#Museums Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“It is beautiful to own your own destiny and be able to do what you feel in your heart. To have that and not do it? THAT is crazy to me.”
“Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.”
“You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds.”
“The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.”
“I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”

Source : Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt
“Do not worry at all about negative thoughts, and do not try to control them. All you have to do is begin to think good thoughts each day. Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day. As you begin to think good thoughts you will attract more and more good thoughts, and eventually the good thoughts will wipe out the negative thoughts altogether.”

Source : Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
“The shadows: some hide, others reveal.”

Source : "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.
“Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”

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