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Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi : Gaia Explorer
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%--when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi : Gaia Explorer
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi : Gaia Child
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

Alan Alda (1936 - )
 
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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Edward A. Navajo
 
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It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all it's shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

James Douglas
 
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Orison Swett Marden : American journalist, founded & edited Success magazine
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
 
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The straight line is godless and
immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating
line.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Source: Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture, http://www.kunsthauswien.com/english/gegen-arch.htm
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In every walk with nature one receives more than he seeks.

John Muir : American naturalist
John Muir (1838 - 1914)
 
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