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Love


Sting at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for th...

Sting at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere of Duncan Jones's film Moon. Photographer's blog post about this event. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them. ”
Sting

Hate


Khalil Gibran (April 1913)

Khalil Gibran (April 1913) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb? -Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931)

Ideas


Oscar Wilde at Oxford

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ”
Oscar Wilde

Love


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at age 69

Image via Wikipedia

“Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love of God and good


Hermann Hesse, photographed this year

Love of God is not always the same as love of good. ”
Herman Hesse

Perfection


Saint-ExupéryPerfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Rhetoric and poetry


“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”

-William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

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