"Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life."

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Source : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 134, 1929.

John Cowper Powys

#Worry Quotes #Genius Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I do not paint in front of but from within nature.”

Source : Diane Waddmann, Arshile Gorky (1981). “Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, a Retrospective”
“The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him”

Source : "Al Qaeda man faces tribunal", www.cnn.com. August 26, 2004.
“The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.”

Source : Sir Dennis Holme Robertson (1929). “Money”
“Disappointment is simply a dream that doesnt want to become a reality.”
“I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.”

Source : "10 Minutes with Steve Buscemi". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2007.
“When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.”
“What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.”
“I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?”

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