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• Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self Esteem, World, Antiques

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.305, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Depth, Layers

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.157, Penguin

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• The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.

  Richard Schmid

  Eye, Sight, Views

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• A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Life, Spiritual, Mistake

  Ulysses (1922)

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• There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Wall, Book, Epic

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• In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Sunset, Autumn

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• Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Journey, Self

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• The chakras are specialized energy centers which connect us to the multidimensional universe. The chakras are dimensional portals within the subtle bodies which take in and process energy of higher vibrational nature so that it may be properly assimilated and used to transform the physical body.

  Richard Gerber

  Energy, Body, May

  Richard Gerber (2001). “Vibrational Medicine: The #1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• The irrevocable Hand
  That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
  The portals of our earthly destinies;
  We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors
  Close after us, for ever.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Destiny, Doors, Hands

  "Poems" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("April"), 1859.

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• When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your D*** lemons, what the h*** am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

  J.K. Simmons

  Men, Who I Am, Giving

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• The last thing you want to do is shoot 80 wearing 'tartan troosers'.

  Ian Poulter

  Golf, Want, Lasts

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• Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Beauty, Mind

  Harmonium (1923) "Peter Quince at the Clavier" pt. 4

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• Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

  J.K. Simmons

  Why Not

  "Fictional character: Cave Johnson". "Portal 2", Video Game, 2011.

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• That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on language, which activates words as a portal back into experience. It's a mysterious process that's very hard to articulate, because it's focused entirely on the material of language in a way, but in the interests not just of language itself whatever that would mean - that's the mistake, by the way, that so many so-called "experimental" poets make - but in service to human experience.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Mistake, Mean, Focus

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO

  Ayn Rand

  Heart, Cutting, Ego

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Civilization, Sacred, Civilized Society

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• When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.

  Wanda Sykes

  Unique, Giving, Caves

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• There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.134

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• Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of imagining the world, or seeing a world beyond this world, or seeing a world beyond this world that I might not have gotten to unless I discovered meditation and a very deep, intense spiritual path based on contemplation and meditation.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Meditation, Drug

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

  Johan Huizinga

  Discipline, History, General Public

  Johan Huizinga (2014). “Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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• Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Powerful, Emotional, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

  James Ellis

  Morning, Twilight, Dark

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• Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.

  Walt Disney

  Glasses, Entrepreneur, Cartoon

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• I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless extremes; beseeching at the portals of the soft source, mad with a completely phsycial realization of the origins of life-bliss; blindly seeking to return the way he came

  Jack Kerouac

  Origin Of Life, Years, Jail

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• I've always really loved big worlds and the kind of worldbuilding where you can open a portal into a new realm that feels full and complete. At the same time, I also really love history. So the combination of big worlds and history draws me directly into fantasy. Well, it should turn me towards historical fiction but I'm such a perfectionist about research that I'm not sure I could ever write a book in that genre properly. In fantasy, you have to have the same level of precision, but it's not as research-based. Plus, I get to write my little info sheets and draw my maps.

  Victoria Aveyard

  Book, Writing, Historical

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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