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• Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Design, Firsts

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• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Spiritual, Art

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2919, e-artnow

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• The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?

  Jonathan Edwards

  Glorifying God, Might, Glory

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• While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, God, Collaboration

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.18, Bantam

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• Ideas are the root of creation.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Ideas, Roots

  "The Power of Thought". Published by Prima, p. 119, 1998.

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• In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Inspirational, Peace, School

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2003). “The Fifth Book of Peace”, Knopf

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• ...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Culture, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.212, Vintage

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• The life you are living is your creation, your perception of reality that you can change at any time.

  Dawn Abraham

  Change, Lost Love, Reality

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• Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.

  Rumi

  Talking, Divine, Seems

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• Now if I believe in God's Son and remember that He became man, all creatures will appear a hundred times more beautiful to me than before. Then I will properly appreciate the sun, the moon, the stars, trees, apples, as I reflect that he is Lord over all things. ...God writes the Gospel, not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

  Martin Luther

  Beautiful, Stars, Believe

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• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Leadership, Fun

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.152, Routledge

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• God's first creature, which was light.

  Francis Bacon

  Light, Firsts, Evolution

  'New Atlantis' (1627)

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• A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

  T. S. Eliot

  Attitude, Wrong Attitude

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The opposite of war isn't peace... It's creation!

  Jonathan Larson

  Peace, War, Opposites

  "Rent". Musical by Jonathan Larson, 1996.

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• Time was God's first creation.

  Walter Lang

  Time, Firsts

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• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Life, Lying

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• I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Garden, Thinking, Religion

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• I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

  Saint Augustine

  World, Evolution, Made

  Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beauty, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.102, Harvard University Press

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• Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Music, Echoes, Voice

  Giuseppe Mazzini, Emilie Ashurst Venturi (2004). “Giuseppe Mazzini's Philosophy of Music: (1836) : Envisioning a Social Opera”, Edwin Mellen Pr

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Moving, Commitment

  "The Scottish Himalaya Expedition". Book by W. H. Murray, 1951.

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• Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Want, What You Want

  Peter McWilliams (1994). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Prelude Press

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• The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

  James A. Baldwin

  Life, Happiness, Success

  "Collected Essays, Vol. 2". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1998.

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• The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.

  John of Damascus

  Christian, Icons, Environmental

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• Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Mind Your Own Business, Devil

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