Power
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"Drawing, then, is a way of fostering interest in the world. It is a way of making connections with the things that surround us and with the forces that shape and animate and move them. It's a way of taking in the world's strangeness and power and finding comfort in it." Peter Steinhart, The Undressed Art
"It's an illusion that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who gives this power to them." Anthony de Mello
[May 27, 2009
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“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” Jacob Riis
“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
James Baldwin, writer (1924-1987)
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." Lao-Tzu [May 15, 2006
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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” Jimi Hendrix, musician, singer, and songwriter (1942-1970) [May 04, 2006
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