"Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful."

-- Joseph Hall

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“The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.”

Source : Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.”
“Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken?”
“I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself,”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.”

Source : Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.15, Yale University Press
“As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.”
“Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a white-dominated society, I truly know what being Sudanese refugees [adopting by white family] mean. It's not something that you can explain in the confines of an interview, but there is an immediate comfort, a connection between black phenotypes that is natural.”
“To see ourselves as we truly areâ€”a wisp of love itselfâ€”is perhaps our deepest fear. But it is also our greatest grace. If we are to be the new human, we must begin by embracing love, which always seeks to incarnate itself. Love is enfleshed everywhere. Everywhere the Holy One is shouting and whispering, â€˜Let me love you.â€™ And all that is asked of us is to receive. In reality, that is our lifeâ€™s work. Nothing more, and certainly nothing less.”

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