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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
Expression

"All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way."

Believe Expression Commitment
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Amy Lowell Poet
Expression

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."

Men Art Expression
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Antonin Dvorak Composer
Expression

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap."

Art Doe Expression
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Marlon Brando Actor, Director
Expression

"Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: ‘How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?’ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere"

Believe Girl Expression
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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
Expression

"Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love."

Children Loss Expression
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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet
Expression

"I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing."

Heart Eye Expression
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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
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"What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity."

Real Creativity Expression
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Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer
Expression

"You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you."

Heart Expression Blank Mind
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Expression

"Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late."

Teaching Understanding Expression
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Expression

"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

Effort Expression Emotion
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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
Expression

"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you."

God Made Expression
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