"And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette."

-- Minoru Yamasaki

#Artist Quotes #Joy Quotes #Delight Quotes

“I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.”
“The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.”
“My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.”

Source : "Rahul Dravid Retires From Cricket 'With Sadness But Also With Pride'". www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.
“Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.”
“By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.”
“What took you so long?â€ Nash asked, as he slid into the passenger seat and pulled the door closed. â€œI stopped to donate all your underwear to the homeless. Youâ€™re gonna wanna take care of those tighty whitiesâ€”theyâ€™re all youâ€™ve got left.â€ He leaned against the door, either too tired or too drunk to sit up. â€œAnd to think, most people donâ€™t understand your sense of humor.â€ â€œFools, all of them.”
“Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.”
“There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come.”

Source : Richard Wilhelm (2014). “Lectures on the "I Ching": Constancy and Change”, p.60, Princeton University Press

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