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#1

“ART

The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be quite the same as somebody else's. I wish that I could touch you and be sure that it was the right thing to do. I only want to touch you briefly. Just once so that you will know. We are flesh and blood and full of faults. But we are also full of warmth. The world is full of confusion but there is compassion in its midst. communication via simple touch can transmit so much of us in just one minute. Like a painting or a piece of music. I want to touch your soul. I only wish I could be sure it was the right thing to do.”
― Jay Woodman, SPAN

tags: communication, compassion, confusion, contradiction, faults, music, painting, right, rightness, soul, touch, transmit, truth

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#2

“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: analogy, anew, art, author, bath, change, clothes, creative-arts, emerge, fear, immerse, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, life, metamorphosis, metaphor, novelist, poem, poesia, poetess, poetry, poetry-quotes, quote, read, reading, reading-quotes, soak, touch, transcend, transcendence, transform, undress, water, wet, write, writing

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#3

“I felt that if he touched me, I'd die. and then the thought crawled into my brain that if he didn't touch me, I'd die.”
― Kitty Thomas, The Auction

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#4

“You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

tags: age, beautiful, boy, love, mild, poem, touch

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#5

“Touch has a memory.”
― John Keats

tags: memory, touch

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#6

“You do not understand what you have done to me. The sky inside me gets a little more colorful, every time I see you. A little more feather gets added to my weak wings, every time you touch me. It is hard for me to let you go now after seeing how beautiful the sky inside me can get and how strong my wings can become when you are around me.”
― Akshay Vasu, The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams

tags: beautiful, colors, feathers, love, romance, sky, touch, wings

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#7

“only he who already understands can listen”
― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

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#8

“Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

tags: prayer

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#9

“We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

tags: life, self-examination

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#10

“Drinking’s funny. When I look back on it, all of our important decisions have been figured out when we were drinking. Even when we talked about having to cut back on drinking, we’d be sitting at the kitchen table or out at the picnic table with a six-pack or whiskey.”
― Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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#11

“The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from.”
― Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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#12

“A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house.”
― Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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#13

“He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.”
― Raymond Carver, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

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#14

“I found that life has to be edited to continue.”
― Tracey Emin, The Art of Tracey Emin

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#15

“I couldn’t be sure if I had moved forward or fallen behind, or if I was just circling over the same spot.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

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#16

“Get off your high horse and get yourself grounded! Know what it is like to have your world turned upside down! Your becoming a good therapist is not about putting yourself apart from the people you work with; it is about coming to know intimately their pain, their humiliation, and their ability to rise above it.”
― Catherine Hyland Moon, Studio Art Therapy: Cultivating the Artist Identity in the Art Therapist

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#17

“Why should I waste my imagination on myself? —SERGEI DIAGHILEV”
― Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

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#18

“If you don’t know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.”
― Clive James, Latest Readings

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#19

“Socrates, after all, said that the unexamined life was not worth living. He might have added, however, that continual self-examination would leave us no time to live.”
― Clive James, The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years

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#20

“Why don’t you kids dance? he decided to say, and then said it. "Why don’t you dance?”
― Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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#21

“Years later,
I still wanted to give up
friends, love, starry skies,
for a house where no one
was home, no one coming back,
and all I could drink”
― Raymond Carver, Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

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#22

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#23

“If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#24

“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

tags: essence, friendship, important, love, people, philosophy, possibility, thought

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#25

“When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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#26

“The song is over. But the melody lingers on.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

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#27

“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

tags: abuse, dark-secrets, knowing-oneself, not-knowing, repression, secrets, subconscious, suppression, survivors, trauma-memory, traumatized, unconscious

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#28

“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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#29

“As I often tell my students, the two most important phrases in therapy, as in yoga, are “Notice that” and “What happens next?” Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than with fear, everything shifts.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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#30

“I am not fond of the word psychological.
There is no such thing as the psychological.
Let us say that one can improve the biography of
the person.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE”
― R.D. Laing, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

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