TESTIMONIALS
These are testimonials to life.
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Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.
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Patti Smith
Until the Story of the hunt is told by the Lion, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
African Proverb
I hope that every person has the beautiful luxury of representing difference
in some context of their life
Frances Frei
Do not shrink. Do not puff up. Stand your sacred ground.
Brene Brown
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Know your intentions and choose congruent behaviors.
Robert J. Garmston
The things that make us different, those are our superpowers.
Lena Waithe
It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.
Emmylou Harris
Hope inspires the good to reveal itself.
Emily Dickinson
Without art, we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -
he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want to die in music, not in reason or prose.
People don't deserve the restraint we show
by not going into delirium in front of them.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Revelation never comes as a fern uncoiling
a frond in mist;
it comes when I trip.
Arthur Sze
You'll learn a rhythm of living and being and doing and not doing... Your heart will be broken and healed a dozen times a day...You will doubt your path and then the road will appear clear and welcoming...You'll know you're living in the red hot center of an intoxicating life.
Colleen Hubbard
If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are,
the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.
Alain De Bolton
What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Â Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world.
Alice Walker
Whether a man dispassionately sees to the core of life or passionately sees the surface, the core and the surface are essentially the same, words making them seem different only to express appearance. Â If name be needed, wonder names them both: From wonder into wonder existence opens.
Lao Tzu
Bringing out the best in others is how we find the best in ourselves.
Margaret Heffernan
The desire of monks and mystics is not unlike that of artists: to perceive the extraordinary within the ordinary by changing not the world but the eyes that look... To form the intention of new awareness is already to transform and be transformed.
Jane Hirshfield
Feelings are mentionable and manageable.
Mr. Rogers
Make music with your life
a
jagged
silver tune
cuts every deep madness
Into jewels that you wear
Carry 16 bars of old blues
wit/you
everywhere you go
walk thru acute sadness
howlin
Like a guitar player