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Memorable Sayings (A Book of Quotable Quotes), 2010

In this volume I have made a humble attempt to collect and compile, as far as it has been possible, a large number of insightful quotations made by great thinkers with an intention to support ourselves with introspections and visions of the foreseers manifested in their sayings. I hope this collection of quotations will help us in various spheres of our life when we come across numerous external pressures and troubles that tell upon our nerves in such a manner that we fail to equip ourselves to fight against all these odds with a brave heart and cool nerves. This volume, I believe, will help us to face adversities and challenges of life with more courage, integrity, and confidence to come out with good success and accomplished missions. What we all need is nothing but a more positive attitude towards life and the problems of life we face.

Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 2007

When one thinks of Kurisumala Ashram (Cistercian Abbey), it is naturally about its founder Abbot Francis Acharya, the Syrian Liturgy, The Prayer with the Harp of the Spirit, the Cistercian Spirituality and the Indian Sannyasa lifestyle that comes to one’s mind. We, the monks of Kurisumala, try to live this spirit by imbibing our tradition and transmitting it to the coming generations. Your intervention with the intention of spreading his thoughts and words through this attempt is God’s plan too, and may the Good Lord bless you for your kind efforts.

This essay cites seven story-vignettes to urge us to come alive, happily. They are: one, Tommy happily drawing; two, Tommy protesting against nap he needs; three, the first stone the sinless can cast to sinner; four, minnows happily swimming; five, Lady Beautiful happily kidnapped; six, a happy roadside skull; and seven, the happy spring. All these stories say, “Be here, now!” ever beyond, alive beyond alive. Conclusion tells of how these life vignettes repair and fill up seven ditches dug out by logical thinking, by story-showing how reasonable being alive is, and urges us all, “Be here, now!”

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The projects in this book began as a list Stefan Sagmeister found in his diary under the title "Things I have learned in my life so far." Given an incredible amount of freedom by some of his clients, he began transforming these aphorisms into typographic works; they have since appeared as French and Portuguese billboards, a Japanese annual report, on German television, in an Austrian magazine, as a New York direct mailer and as an American poster campaign. Taken together, the collection is part design project, part work of art, part examination of the pursuit of happiness. To this end, noted designer Steven Heller, art critic and curator Nancy Spector and psychologist and Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile author Daniel Nettle contribute essays to the book. The new edition contains three additional signatures (48 pages) covering new works, such as the Dietch Gallery exhibition in SOHO that coincided with the book's opening and The Happy Film, a documentary that S...

Journal of Haitian studies, 2013

Concepts and Clarifications 1. Poetry is the first light-giver to ignorance, and first nurse. (Sidney) 2. Philosophers appear to the world but under the masks of poets. 3. Great passport of poetry to beauty and judgement. 4. Hard dull wits softened and sharpened with the sweet delights of poetry. 5. A poet is a diviner, foreseer, or prophet. 6. Poetry is heart-ravishing knowledge. 7. A poet is a maker. 8. World is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden. 9. Poesy is a speaking picture, to teach and delight. 10. Poesy is the lute, the light. 11. Peerless poets perform by precept and example. 12. Poesy deals with universal consideration. 13. The end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. (Johnson) 14. All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. (Wordsworth) 15. Poesy is outcome of lively sensibility. 16. Poetry is the most philosophical of all writings; it is so; its object is truth, and individual and local, but general, and operative. 17. Poetry is the image of man and nature. 18. Poetry is an acknowledgment of the beauty of the universe. 19. Poetry looks at the world in the spirit of love. 20. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge. 21. The poet binds together by passion and knowledge. 22. Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge. 23. The poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration. 24. The poet is chiefly distinguished from other men by a greater promptness to think and feel. 25. Good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere, and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole. (S. T. Coleridge) 26. Poetry is expression of imagination. (Shelley) 27. To be a poet is to apprehend the true and the beautiful. 28. The poets are the authors of language and of music…they are the institutors of laws…the founders of civil society…the inventors of the arts of life…the teachers. 29. The poets are legislators and prophets. 30. A poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one. 31. The poets are the authors of revolutions. 32. Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. 33. A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. 34. A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet known not whence and why. 35. Beauty of conceptions in its naked truth and splendour. 36. Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world. 37. Poetry enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight. 38. Poetry strengthens the faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. 39. Poems contribute to the happiness and perfection of man. 40. Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. 41. Poetry is ever still the light of life; the source of whatever of beautiful or generous or true can have place in an evil time. 42. The world would have fallen into utter anarchy and darkness, but that there were found poets among the authors. 43. Creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art. 44. Poetry is a burning atom of inextinguishable thought. 45. All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. 46. A great poem is a fountain of ever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.