"You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object."

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Frederick Franck

#Copying Quotes #Way Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!”
“I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cigarettes so that they know I'm badass. But really, I do have tattoos! And I do smoke cigarettes sometimes, and I can't change that. But I am not badass, by any means. I do some stuff that's tongue-in-cheek, and some stuff that's on the line. And it could be funny, it could be serious, and I never even know myself, because it could be funny that day, and the next day it's totally embarrassing.”
“Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?”
“It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.”

Source : Sudhir Kakar (2008). “The Seeker: A Novel”, p.99, Shambhala Publications
“I want to be someone making music/with my coming.”
“Women are women and can't help themselves.”

Source : William John Locke (2008). “The Red Planet (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.”
“It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.”

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