Space Between Quotes

• Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Two, Piano, Space

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.7, New World Library

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• There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

  Sarah Dessen

  Space, Together, Middle

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.333, Penguin

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• In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Differences, Space

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

  Keith Jarrett

  Thinking, Space, People

  "Keith Jarrett, Part II: The Q&A". Interview with David Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. October 13, 2009.

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• In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.

  Stephen Covey

  Lying, Effectiveness, Space

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• Thirty spokes meet in the hub,
  but the empty space between them
  is the essence of the wheel.
  
  Pots are formed from clay,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the pot.
  
  Walls with windows and doors
  form the house,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the home.

  Laozi

  Wall, Home, Essence

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• It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.

  Alex Caceres

  Mma, Space, Giving

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• Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

  David Levithan

  Knowing, Space, Impossible

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.114, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

  Stephen Covey

  Exercise, Space, Choices

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Space, Another Chance, Shapes

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• The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.

  Ivan Doig

  Stars, Space, Done

  Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is the space between our things.

  Claude Debussy

  Space, Life Is

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• Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.

  Mu Xin

  Writing, Opposites, Play

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• This is what meditation means: how to be not identified with the mind - how to create a space between yourself and your own mind. It is difficult because we never make any separation. We go on thinking in terms that the mind means me: mind and me are totally identified. If they are totally identified, then you will never be at peace; then you will never be able to enter the divine, because the divine can be entered only when the social has been left behind.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Thinking, Space

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• Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Space, Contentment, Flow

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• The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

  Georges Braque

  Space, Paint, Dishes

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• Relationships, like eyebrows, are better when there is space between them.

  Demetri Martin

  Eyebrows, Space

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• Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a space between manmade cultivation and wilderness. Look for them in the space between nurture and nature, they are to be found at all boarders and boundaries, or on the edges of water where it is neither land nor lake, neither path nor pond. They come when we are half-asleep. They come at moments when we least expect them; when our rational mind balances with the fluid irrational.

  Brian Froud

  Garden, Lakes, Land

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• there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.

  Laura Esquivel

  Space

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• Her silence was the blank space between the words.

  Paulo Coelho

  Space, Silence, Blank

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• History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

  Jodi Picoult

  War, Space, People

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension.

  Brian Froud

  Space, Giving, Depth

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• Is not the space between Heaven and Earth like a bellows? It is empty, but lacks nothing. The more it moves, the more comes out of it.

  Laozi

  Moving, Space, Heaven

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• If nothing once, you nothing lose,
  For when you die you are the same;
  The space between is but an hour,
  The frail duration of a flower.

  Philip Freneau

  Flower, Space, Atheism

  Philip Morin Freneau (1809). “Poems Written and Published During the American Revolutionary War, and Now Republished from the Original Manuscripts: Interspersed with Translations from the Ancients, and Other Pieces Not Heretofore in Print”, p.148

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• You can looking at that glass of water, not as a glass of water, but as paint on a two-dimensional surface. It's not just a question of looking, but of doing, in relation to this, in relation to that, in relation to the space between things.

  Malcolm Morley

  Space, Glasses, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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