Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
Octavio Paz
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
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In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.
I. M. Pei
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
Napoleon Hill
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As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytelling. Hiking in nature along a twisting trail can remind us what a good story feels like. It's the opposite of a treadmill - or an interstate highway.
Kate Klise
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman
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Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!
Alison Owen
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You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.
S. Jay Olshansky
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What majesty is in a creeping Snail, what reflection, what earnestness, what timidity and yet at the same time what firm confidence!
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.
Gabriel Marcel
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Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
