Confino A World Quotes & Sayings

Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art. — Ming-Dao Deng

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil — Calvin Coolidge

Spiritual consciousness is, on the whole, very adventurous and all about pursuing our deepest, most fulfilling dreams. — James Redfield

In the fatal course of the most painful ailments, sometimes [ ... ], sometimes there occur sweet mornings of perfect repose- and that not owning to some blessed pill or potion [ ... ] or at least without our knowing that the loving hand of despair slipped us the drug. — Vladimir Nabokov

I beg young people to travel ... — Henry Rollins

I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me. — Mary Shelley

But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of Outer Mongolia, I knew my name was written there too. Fly fishing was going to be my version of my father's sport, my nod to my Scottish ancestors and to my self, and to the fish crazed part of America I had claimed as my own. — Jessica Maxwell

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control. — Cornelia Parker

It's ironic. The poorest, most underdeveloped areas of the world are now humanity's last hope. The rest of the world is one huge hell where a handful of scattered survivors are trying to escape. — Manel Loureiro

I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories. — Matsuo Basho

Those who succeed after a rare opportunity, only succeed on the back of a plan they already had or one they craft and begin to pursue after receiving the windfall. — Archibald Marwizi

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. — David Deutsch

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts. — Fernand Leger

It is the right of art to consider an impression valid simply as an impression and to accept it as something entire and complete without critical scrutiny. Art is, as Schopenhauer puts it, "everywhere at its goal." But for life, and hence surely also for religion, there is a danger, the romantic danger, in making the impression of an experience all-important. For then the sense for the content and commandment of life must all too soon evaporate together with any sense for reality with its definite tasks; and the place of all aspiration and expectation will be taken over by the sole dominion of the mood of faith which simply feels itself, and then finds it easy to deem itself, complete. This is faith for faith's sake. — Leo Baeck