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• Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Prayer, Breathing, Natural

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.75

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• I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

  Billy Joel

  Music, Healing, Thinking

  Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

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• In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Struggle

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• Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

  Mark Helprin

  Silence, Time Management, Wells

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• Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Art, Creativity, Design

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• Living a life of service, rather than one of expression, is a serious mistake, because expressing who we really are is the greatest service we can perform.

  Kurt Hanks

  Mistake, Serious Mistakes, Serious

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• Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.

  Paul Cezanne

  Heart, Express Yourself

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• What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?

  Charles Mingus

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "Setting the Tempo: Fifty Years of Great Jazz Liner Notes". Book by Tom Piazza, 1996.

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• Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.

  Charles Ives

  Matter, Term

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.19, 1st World Publishing

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• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

  Martha Graham

  Positive, Uplifting, Dance

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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• Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

  Rumi

  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

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• How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Beautiful, Literature, Masculinity

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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• Giving is the highest expression of potency.

  Erich Fromm

  Giving, Charity, Potency

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• I paint abstract expressions.

  Billy Zane

  Paint, Abstract

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  Salman Rushdie

  Honesty, Integrity, Freedom Of Speech

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

  John Malkovich

  Self, Design, Details

  "Wearing John Malkovich" by Teo Kermeliotis and Rosie Tomkins, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2010.

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• One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Personality, Want

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.220, Sounds True

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• The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Conception, Superiors

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• There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

  John M. Ford

  Believe, People, Clarity

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• Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

  Rudolf Bing

  Vulgarity Is, Way, Levels

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  Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

  Jane Addams

  Code Of Ethics, Hull House, Action

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.128, Youcanprint

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• As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.836, Best Books on

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• A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

  Ernst Haas

  Beautiful, Photography, Creativity

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• Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Self Reliance, Half

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an artist to bring to expression, it's not my role to be expressive.

  Anish Kapoor

  Artist, Thinking, Roles

  Anish Kapoor, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux (1998). “Anish Kapoor: exposition du 16 octobre 1998 au 7 février 1999, capcMusée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux”, Capcmusee D'Art Contemporain

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