"For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm."

-- Nikos Kazantzakis

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“To see ourselves as we truly areâ€”a wisp of love itselfâ€”is perhaps our deepest fear. But it is also our greatest grace. If we are to be the new human, we must begin by embracing love, which always seeks to incarnate itself. Love is enfleshed everywhere. Everywhere the Holy One is shouting and whispering, â€˜Let me love you.â€™ And all that is asked of us is to receive. In reality, that is our lifeâ€™s work. Nothing more, and certainly nothing less.”
“Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.”
“Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?”
“The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.”

Source : Willard Fiske (1859). “The book of the first American chess congress: containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, with the papers read in its sessions, the games played in the grand tournament, and the stratagems entered in the problem tournay ; together with sketches of the history of chess in the old and new worlds”, p.16
“I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in the work you need to.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com
“Most ideas are a bit scary, and if an idea isn't scary, it's not an idea at all.”
“I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.”
“Thatâ€™s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? Youâ€™re done when you donâ€™t want to do it anymore.”

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