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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable. – W. Somerset Maugham

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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in mans moral nature. – Thorstein Veblen

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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. – Claude Monet

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If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. – Buddha

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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. – Blaise Pascal

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Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without ones willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively. – Joyce Carol Oates

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[Rumi’s words are an] expression of praise and grief and gratitude and play. – Coleman Barks

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Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Flight to Arras, 1942

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