"It is God's giving if we laugh or weep."
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"To women silence gives their proper grace."
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"As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back."
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"Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit."
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"The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong."
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"I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street."
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"Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live."
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"Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work"
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"Meditation simplifies our outer life and energizes our inner life. Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life, a life that becomes so natural and spontaneous that we cannot breathe without being conscious of our own divinity."
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"Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world."
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"Thus to act under the guidance coming from above, this is one side of the sadhana, the dynamic side. The other one is the discrimination between the Purusha and the Prakriti. The Purusha will calmly observe, give sanction, choose, but will realise that all this does not belong to him - all these are outside him. This is the static side of the sadhana. These two aspects constitute the basis of Yoga."
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"True humility means giving joy to others."
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"I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money to charity. It's my way of recycling; I feel like I can give back to the universe."
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"You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance."
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"A winner is just someone who doesn't give up when they lose."
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"My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less."
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"Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less."
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"I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point."
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"Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty."
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"there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up."
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