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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.


Robert Alexander Schumann

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
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MARY RENAULT Let every human heart be open at spark of the light.
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[Alexander's tombstone epit...
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JON KRAKAUER Darkness is nothing
but an opportunity
to spread light
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Though I’ve never led a...
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LILLIAN S. VILORIA The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. -Robert M. Persig.
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SOTONYE ANGA If the flesh were to be a preacher the gospel it will love to preach is the gospel called variety.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The human body is a strange & unreligious being,for it thrives on variety.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Fear the lion,fear the crocodile,but fear most the one that puts on the inevitable wear called the h...
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GARY F EVANS... To err is human, but it feels divine.
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C. JOYBELL C. PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Sylvia possessed a deeply conditioned respect for authority. She wanted desperately to live up to th...
ELIZABETH WINDER Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
MOTHER TERESA Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
MOTHER THERESA Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA And ShadowClan holds power over there, in the darkest part of the forest. The elders say that the co...
ERIN HUNTER I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply.

"You truly want me?"

"Mo...
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ANISH KAPOOR The demand of human heart is the inverse to human qualities.
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KELLY JONES Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
DON MIGUEL RUIZ Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
MIGUEL RUIZ Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the b...
WOODROW WILSON Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
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, THE HUMAN FACE, 2001 The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is ...
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON God’s revelation does not need the light of human genius, the polish and strength of human culture...
E.M. BOUNDS The human heart is hard to grasp.
BO CALDWELL Vocation is the spine of life.
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RICHARD MARX If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.
DAN BROWN Dedication is the preparation to success!
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NORM TOMLINSON The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrific...
NORM TOMLINSON Home, is where the heart longs to be when you dream.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
HARUKI MURAKAMI You should believe in prayers, even though there is no guarantee of success. Just like Love.
SARVESH JAIN For the light to exist, there must be the dark. For the Force, there must be balance.
GREG RUCKA Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.
NICHOLAS LORE The key to every human heart is love.
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JOHN C. MCGINLEY Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat.
ERIN HUNTER So that's a fox?' Firepaw whispered. 'What an ugly muzzle!'
'You can say that again!' agreed Gr...
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ALAN ALEXANDER I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo...
ALAN ALEXANDER When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.
ALAN ALEXANDER The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di...
JASON ALEXANDER War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp...
ALEXANDER BERKMAN Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion
ALEXANDER CHASE A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
ALEXANDER CHASE To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
ALEXANDER CHASE To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
ALEXANDER CHASE The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible
ALEXANDER CHASE Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so...
ALEXANDER CHASE A man's home is his wife's castle
ALEXANDER CHASE Memory is the thing you forget with
ALEXANDER CHASE People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
ALEXANDER CHASE Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
ALEXANDER CHASE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE