"When a person has swum, traveled, run a lathe, planted flowers, ridden a motorcycle, made wine, painted a picture, parachuted, he has increased the fund from which he may draw for new figural developments. In other words, as the background of his experience becomes more diversified, it also becomes potentially more harmonious with a whole range of happenings."

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Source : Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”

Erving Polster

#Running Quotes #Flower Quotes #Wine Quotes

“Acting seems much easier than singing, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here you are taking everything off.”
“Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.”

Source : Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.15, Princeton University Press
“Voting is the foundation stone for political action.”
“Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.”

Source : "Bowl of Saki".
“Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.”

Source : "French Contributions to America". Book by Edward Fecteau, 1945.
“It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden”
“Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?”
“I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John's in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.”

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