"The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort."

-- John Ruskin

#Determination Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Water Quotes

“The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective realities within it which rule and convention have hitherto concealed.”

Source : Max Scheler (2017). “The Nature of Sympathy”, p.388, Routledge
“The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.”
“Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,”

Source : "Astronomer's 'cosmic connection' to Saturn" By Bjorn Carey, www.cnn.com. February 15, 2005.
“If laws were real they wouldnâ€™t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldnâ€™t be broken. Try breaking the law of gravity. Now thatâ€™s a law. Laws made by man are rules reflecting the current status of his moral codes. As he alters and whittles away his morality, casting bits and pieces aside, his codes change to reflect it.”
“A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.”

Source : E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.147, Random House
“I would love to meet my soul mate. I'm always kind of keeping my eyes open for somebody.”
“Everything I know, I learned from dogs.”
“Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.”

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