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• The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.

  John Welwood

  Beautiful, Real, Fighting

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Writing, Venus De Milo, Creative

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• Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being. This relationship is not external or extrinsic to our identity but wells up as the defining truth from our deepest being.

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  Stars, Integrity, Fire

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• Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Fiction, Select

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• Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Decisions We Make, Experience, Woven

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.347, Macmillan

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• There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath. Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spiritual, Ideas, Shining

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.99, Macmillan

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• The search for meaning can be through religion but it can also be through art and tapestry. It can be through prayer but it can also be through music and sport. It's whatever provides you with that sense of belonging.

  Justin Rutledge

  Sports, Art, Prayer

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal in their own peculiar way - they have no choice: politics is one of the many fragments we thread into the tapestry of the poem.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Mean, Animal, Choices

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the discovery of its beauty, and symmetry, little by little, as it graduallly comes to be more and more unfolded, or displayed.

  Robert Boyle

  Book, Discovery, Waiting

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• You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Beautiful, Wall, Believe

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

  Mike Rowe

  Careers, People, Proud

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• Real sexual conversations are enormously intimate and beautiful because they reveal so much about who we are and what we want. What are the emotional needs we bring to our sexuality and how do we connect to ourselves and connect to a partner? There's such a rich tapestry that can be revealed, but the vast majority of couples have never had those talks.

  Esther Perel

  Beautiful, Couple, Real

  "The Deeper Reasons Why People Have Affairs". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. October 20, 2017.

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• Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.

  John Flavel

  Beautiful, Eye, Together

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• Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner..., things of that sort, our personal memories, that make the private tapestry of our lives.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Memories, Party, Cities

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Love Over Scotland”, p.356, Anchor

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• In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay of possibilities, probabilities, good luck and bad, that weaves its way throughout the length and breadth of the tapestry. In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Good Luck

  On War Chapter 1, 21 (p. 86)

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• If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

  Joe McNally

  Photography, Views, Together

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• The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

  Dorothea Dix

  Cutting, Design, Society

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• The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

  Jacqueline Carey

  History, Woven, Thread

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.

  Colin Fletcher

  Journey, Hiking, Space

  Colin Fletcher (2014). “The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher”, p.105, Vintage

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• The human mind has a desire to know its place in the universe and the role we play in the tapestry of life. This is actually hardwired into our brains, the desire the know our relationship to the universe. This was good for our evolution, since it enabled us to see our relationship to others and to nature which was good for our survival. And it is also what drives our curiosity to understand the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Play, Brain, Survival

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• The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter and point. Every concept and content, every notion and idea, of every spiritual movement, of every vibration, intellectual and emotional, from the immediate and general to the distant and detailed, from matters lofty, spiritual, and ethical according to their outward profile, to matters practical, obligatory, seemingly frightening, and forceful, and at the same time complex and full of content and great mental exertion - all together become known by a supernal holy awareness.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Spiritual, Men, Emotional

  "XXVIII : The Inner Light of Torah in the Land of Israel". Translation by Rabbi Bezalel Naor, p. 208,

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• I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Guy, Musical, Finding Yourself

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• Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

  Madame de Stael

  Life, Sides, Thread

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• Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.

  Philip Sidney

  Sweet, Flower, Rivers

  Philip Sidney, Geoffrey Shepherd, R.W. Maslen (2002). “An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition”, p.85, Manchester University Press

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• I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..." What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.

  Harold Pinter

  Lying, Kissing, Add

  "Oh, Superman". Broadcast for "Opinion" on Channel 4 (May 31, 1990); later quoted in Harold Pinter "Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2005" (pp. 198-199), 2005.

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