Ralph Waldo EmersonPower ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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The idea of power is an illusion. Power can never be on your side when you decide to be on the other side.
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- Love, and you shall be loved.
- He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
- The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- It is not the length of life, but the depth.