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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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In this very breath that we now take lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us. – Peter Matthiessen

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Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life. – Giovanni Papini

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There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there’s another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity. – Rumi

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We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss. – Alexander Lowen

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Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: Whats good about this? Whats not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it? – Charles Connolly

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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live. – Jean de la Bruyere

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Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnamable. – Francis Ponge

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Follow your instincts. Thats where true wisdom manifests itself. – Oprah Winfrey

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