Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration and effort implied in scientific discovery. Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving...
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Unknown
In a time of destruction, create something.
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Maxine Hong Kingston
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.
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Roy T. Bennett
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Oscar Wilde
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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Mark Twain
More Quotes By Henri Bergson
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.
Long before being artists, we are artisans; and all fabrication, however rudimentary, lives on likeness and repetition, like the natural geometry which serves as its fulcrum. Fabrication works on models which it sets out to reproduce; and even when it invents, it proceeds, or imagines...
