"Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine..."

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Source : Plotinus (1952). “The Six Enneads”, p.47, Hayes Barton Press

Plotinus

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“I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.”
“Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.”
“I think every Internet user likes personalization.”
“I've always loved performing. It was always very exciting for me. I don't get too nervous when I'm playing, but on every stage, it's a little different. I'm always excited, but sometimes, the level of anxiety to perform is greater.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 26, 2012.
“Negative thoughts are the single worst health habit.”
“Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.”

Source : Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“I'm Shahar Peer. I came here to play tennis. I know I'm from Israel and I'm proud of my country and that playing tennis is what I'm going to do tomorrow.”
“I like black, because for me it is a very happy color.”

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