"Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality."

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Source : Cecil Beaton (1957). “The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places”

Cecil Beaton

#Intelligent Quotes #Conceit Quotes #Enthusiastic Quotes

“We need to learn how to keep people through love. Despite imperfections, sins, and irritating habits of other Christians, they belong to Jesus and they need our love as a healthy climate for growth.”
“We did start with a simple manifesto, as we called it, which was a description of what we were about, and it was the Un-carrier. It was about finding and solving customer pain points in an attempt to fix a stupid, broken, arrogant industry. It was something we felt passionate about. It was our goal to make changes and have the industry make the same ones.”
“People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.”
“And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.”

Source : William Cullen Bryant, “October”
“I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.”
“Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.”
“...what one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.”

Source : "LSD: My Problem Child". Book by Albert Hofmann. Chaoter 11: "LSD Experience and Reality", www.psychedelic-library.org. 1980.
“They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.”

Source : Arjuna Ardagh (2008). “Leap Before You Look: 72 Shortcuts for Getting Out of Your Mind and Into the Moment”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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