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“Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.”
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“When a patient says he feels stuck and confused, and through good intentions he struggles to become loose and clear, he only remains chronically trapped in the mire of his own stubbornness. If instead he will go with where he is, only then is there hope. If he will let himself get deeply into the experience of being stuck, only then will he reclaim that part of himself that is holding him. Only if he will give up trying to control his thinking, and let himself sink into his confusion, only then will things become clear. (64)”
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“Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.”
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“God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong instruments are being used for the job.”
Source : John Bertram Phillips, Denis Duncan (1978). “365 meditations by J.B. Phillips for this day”
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“I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.”
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“There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.”
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“So all you want is a kiss?" I asked. A little voice in my head said I was heading for one of those slippery slopes. I told the little voice to shut up. "Well, maybe more than one. But basically, yeah.”
Source : Jenna Black (2010). “Glimmerglass: A Faeriewalker Novel”, p.120, Macmillan
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“For me, starting each collection is always about what I really want, what I really need, and I was personally dying for sensual comfort. I think when you think of Donna Karan, you think of sensuality, but it's a different kind of sensuality. A kind of comfort sensuality that is one with your body and the way clothes feel on.”
