"Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts."

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Confucius

#Art Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.”
“We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.”
“The lingering laughter fled from his eyes as he realized that he'd given himself away. "Where's Fiddle now?" "Safe and cared for. Safer than you'll be if you don't answer my questions." Ping. He managed not to laugh, but it looked like a hard fight. "Dung," Makenna muttered. the knight's expression changed to startled disapproval. A prig, as he? Maybe she could use that. "I said you should let me handle this," Cogswhallop told her. "I'd have meant it.”
“It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.”
“Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.”
“The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.”

Source : Joseph Wood Krutch (2010). “The Desert Year”, p.48, University of Iowa Press
“A lot of people have many misconceptions about religion. I know what I'm talking about for myself. My mind is very ordered, so to speak. I need to put things in order.”
“Practice, the master of all things.”

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