Proximity Quotes - Page 2

• Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Creativity, Dark, Night

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.259, Macmillan

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• We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]

  Ovid

  Blow, Suffering

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• We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

  Germaine Greer

  Communication, Community, Age

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.

  Irvine Welsh

  Luck, Sufferers, Habitual

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A soul can create only when alone.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Soul

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.259, Macmillan

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• Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering, who appeal to your sense of connection to intention, who see the greatness in you, who feel connected to God, who live a life that gives evidence that Spirit has found celebration through them.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Greatness, Giving

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 12, 2010

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• Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be anything more humiliating, more degrading than a life-long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman-what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance?

  Emma Goldman

  Marriage, Husband, Children

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well.

  Germaine Greer

  Strong, Communication, Community

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our visible persons - and whenever my invisible atmosphere is invaded, it affects my whole nervous system. The proximity of any bodies but those I love best is unendurable to my body.

  Fanny Kemble

  Distance, Love Is, Atmosphere

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• Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Pulse, Intimacy

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• There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Brain, Important

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• Atoms are driven by consciousness. In proximity to love, they move in harmonious collaboration with other atoms. When in proximity to fear, they become disharmonious and chaotic. We choose each moment the energy that surrounds us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Energy, Collaboration

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 22, 2015

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• Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.

  Adam Ross

  Love, Age, Dual Nature

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• He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is tolerably popular, will, in one successful season, have paved the way for the business of life, for he has enough to do, ever afterward, to stop the mercurial breach of the constitutions of his dilapidated patients. He has thrown himself in fearful proximity to death, and has now to fight him at arm's length as long as the patient maintains a miserable existence.

  Nathaniel Chapman

  Fighting, Fate, Successful

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• The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Men, Land, Feet

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2009.

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• There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

  Winston Churchill

  Success, Men, Discipline

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Although the semicircle of the Moon is placed above the circle of the Sun and would appear to be superior, nevertheless we know that the Sun is ruler and King. We see that the Moon in her shape and her proximity rivals the Sun with her grandeur, which is apparent to ordinary men, yet the face, or a semi-sphere of the Moon, always reflects the light of the Sun.

  John Dee

  Kings, Moon, Men

  John Dee (2000). “The Hieroglyphic Monad”, p.10, Weiser Books

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• Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation.

  Khalil Gibran Muhammad

  Kids, Parent, Saint

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

  Andy Rooney

  Distance, Silence, Desire

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• A teacher had two types of students. One type of student is a close student. The other is also a close student, but not in the sense of physical proximity. The close students rotate a lot.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Two

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• Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

  Alain de Botton

  Reality, Optimism, Lines

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Distance, Science

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• God is in everyone. God is in you and you are God. Strengthen this fundamental truth. When you propagate this truth, that is the real service. It is the service that will take you to closer proximity, a boat. In this ocean of life, take the help of this boat and gain the proximity.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Ocean, Fundamentals

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• Some teachers are very accessible. They advertise a great deal, they go out into the public. If they're advanced teachers, doubtlessly they are very inaccessible in terms of physical proximity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Enlightened, Term

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• Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if they are because the vibration of the teacher is strongest in the physical proximity of the teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Vibrations

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