"The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly."

-- Isaac D'Israeli

#Wise Quotes #Art Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.”
“In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.”
“The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in spite of everything he is a righteous man.”
“Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.”
“I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet.Â They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out”
“Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.”
“From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.”
“Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.”

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