Expression Quotes - Page 35

• When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour in improving themselves, they set a proportionate value on their own thoughts, and wish to enforce them by efficacious expressions; speech becomes embodied and permanent; different modes and phrases are compared, and the best obtains an establishment. By degrees one age improves upon another.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Wish, Age

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.349

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• The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us.

  Ronald Reagan

  Appreciation, Adventure, Past

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• We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

  Olaus Murie

  Country, Inspiration, Writing

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• Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.

  Bill Moyers

  Beauty, Alive, Rapture

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.283, Anchor

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• Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Spiritual, Civilization, Diversity

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• Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop.

  Osamu Dazai

  Suicide, Men, Offering

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.159, New Directions Publishing

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• Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Disease, Absence, Mere

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• Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression.

  E. O. Wilson

  Passion

  "'Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression'". Interview with Alvin Powell, news.harvard.edu. April 15, 2014.

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• What I am after, above all, is expression.

  Henri Matisse

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.37, Univ of California Press

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• Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

  John Dewey

  Art, Individuality, Musician

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.226, Indiana University Press

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• Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.

  Mark Nepo

  Journey, Listening, Together

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• I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels are not content. Nor are they are a mirror to life or an explanation of life or a guide to life. Novels are life, or they are nothing.

  Richard Flanagan

  Spiritual, Mirrors, Intellectual

  "Man Booker prize-winner Richard Flanagan's acceptance speech in full" by Richard Flanagan, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2014.

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• Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met...I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, People, Joy

  "Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 24, 2013.

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• Marriage can be a religious thing. It can also be a secular thing. And guess what? Not everyone in the world is of the same religion. Preventing gay people from getting married is not an expression of religious freedom. It's an expression of religious oppression.

  Hank Green

  Religious, Gay, People

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• Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

  Erich Fromm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lying

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion, we all have different jobs. Some of us are artists, some of us are business people, some of us are scientists. But in the real world that lies beyond all this, we all have the same job: to minister to human hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Real, Lying

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, People, Creative

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company

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• So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they employ - than to what they mean. This notion of dialogue as a pure expression of character that...transcends the specifics of time and place may be partly why the conversations in the works of writers such as Austen and Bronte often sound fresh and astonishingly contemporary.

  Francine Prose

  Character, Mean, People

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• By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Ice Cream, Nurse, Looks

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• It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a lifesaver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  "Remaking my voice". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Cutting, Thinking, Cities

  Vidal Sassoon, Gerald Battle-Welch, Luca P. Marighetti, Werner Möller (1992). “Vidal Sassoon und das Bauhaus”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

  Mark Nepo

  Tuning, Sacred, Way

  Mark Nepo (2015). “The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

  Henri Matisse

  Country, Color, Would Be

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• Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Elements, Shapes, Divine Power

  Sri Aurobindo (1995). “The Mother”, p.28, Lotus Press

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• It will appeal to girls who are confident and have a strong personal expression of style and identity in the way that they dress and what this says about themselves.

  Agyness Deyn

  Girl, Strong, Style

  "See Agyness Deyn's Second Dr. Martens Collection and Campaign" by Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.elle.com. February 4, 2013.

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