Expression Quotes - Page 36

• Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public recognition for your art - the foundation is the same: the claiming of yourself as an artist/writer and the strengthening of your writing voice through practice, study, and helpful response from other writers.

  Pat Schneider

  Art, Communication, Healing

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.22, Oxford University Press

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• If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

  Oprah Winfrey

  Self, Growth, Dimensions

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.153, Macmillan

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• It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression .

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Rain, Self, Silence

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• It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Affection, Money And Power

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• In the awakened state, the mind is either perfectly silent or it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Mind, Silent, States

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• There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

  James Lee Burke

  Artistic, Film, Form

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• Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Bridges, Fleeting

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.18, Penguin

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• Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.

  Pope Francis

  Limits, Dignity, Freedom Of Expression

  "Pope Francis: freedom of expression has limits" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

  Tara Brach

  Lost Love, Heart, Love Life

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.280, Bantam

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• The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

  Klemens von Metternich

  History, Effort, Political

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• Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Faces, Glory, Doughnut

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which demands expression...Only a few truly love it.

  Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

  Work, Majority, Demand

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• I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.

  Julia Roberts

  Home, Thinking, People

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• Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

  Mother Teresa

  Kindness, Be Kind, Merciful

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• Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.

  Tara Brach

  Profound, Attention, Pay Attention

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• Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

  Robert Frost

  Effort, Reaching, Fulfillment

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• Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Hurt, Smart

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• Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Moments, Accepting, Enormous

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• Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

  William Wordsworth

  Spirit, Poetry Is, Countenance

  'Lyrical Ballads' (2nd ed., 1802) preface

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• A fragrance is like a dress, an expression of personality. It can be both erotic or powerful, or both, but it always combines femininity and sensuality.

  Gianfranco Ferre

  Powerful, Personality, Erotic

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• PURPOSE is spirit seeking expression.

  Kevin Cashman

  Purpose, Spirit, Seeking

  Kevin Cashman (2008). “Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Long Walks, Tree, Soul

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• Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

  John Frusciante

  Nothingness

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• The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Goal, Individuality

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.169, Routledge

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• The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

  John Paul Stevens

  Benefits, Censorship, Internet

  "ACLU Hails Supreme Court Victory in Internet Censorship Challenge". www.aclu.org. June 27, 1997.

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