Space Between Quotes

• The deep spaces between stars , Fathomless as the cold shadow His mind cast.

  R. S. Thomas

  Stars, Space, Mind

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

  Tara Brach

  Lying, Space, Choices

  "What Is Mindfulness? 10 Answers From 10 Teachers". Interview with Kellie Edwards, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2014.

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• To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality; to infuse life with color, motion and strange scents that intoxicate; to leap beyond imagination into that space between the worlds where fantasy becomes real; to be at once animal and god. Magic is...the ultimate adventure.

  Starhawk

  Dream, Real, Adventure

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.

  George Rodrigue

  Lying, Sadness, Space

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• There hadn’t been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It’s a slow process, but when you’re awake, there’s no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.

  Jenny Han

  Dream, Space, Wake Up

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• Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Opportunity, Space, Imagination

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• A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.

  Anne Carson

  Thinking, Differences, Space

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.171, Princeton University Press

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• As a younger person, my philosophy was jump off a cliff. I realize now that there are stairs and elevators. I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. I can even ask for help! Not feeling that I have to know everything, and that’s where the growth comes in, in the not knowing.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Philosophy, Knowing, Space

  "Tracee Ellis Ross Gets Glam For Uptown Magazine ‘Hollywood’ Issue" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes through your mind. It is everything that is around us. Life. Energy. Flowing, endlessly flowing, carrying you from then...to now...to tomorrow. Listen: you can hear the music of it. Of the passage of time.

  Lisa Mangum

  Rivers, Space, Mind

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• Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.

  Esther Perel

  Self, Space, Thrive

  "So, how's your sex life these days" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.

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• I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Space, Ease, Rooms

  Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown (1986). “The Poems of Fernando Pessoa”, New York : Ecco Press

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• I was seeing this girl and she wanted to get more serious. But I wasn't ready to, I had just gotten out of a difficult relationship before that. So I said to her, 'Listen, you have to understand something. Relationships are like eyebrows. It's better when there's a space between them.' And that's coming from a Greek guy.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo because they are gone, or which hold no import because they are yet to happen. What is important is the here and now, and now, and now, and the spaces between the nows.

  Tim Lebbon

  Past, Echoes, Space

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• Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Art, Wall, Space

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• Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say... how we enjoy ourselves... Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death.

  Victoria Finlay

  Space, Trying, Next

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.343, Ballantine Books

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• Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Space, Choices

  "First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy". Book by Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill, 1994.

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• Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.

  Karl Marx

  Space, World, Usury

  Karl Marx (1974). “Capital: The process of capitalist production as a whole”

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• In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place.' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space... so that there was a layered, shallow depth.

  Bridget Riley

  Opening Up, Space, Way

  Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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• In the space between our bodies there is a cup holder filled with pennies a distance which can often take years to cross.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Love, Distance, Years

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• The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Future, Space, Race

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• Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space between, outside representation but in the 'presence' of it, we are provoked to laugh. Bernstein alters our language to open a double range that's public and mind at once and inseparable, that is 'Poetry is patterned thought in search of unpatterned mind.' Girly Man is doing it.

  Leslie Scalapino

  Girly, Men, Opposites

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• I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times when someone or something is late-there's that rich possibility of noticing more, in the meantimePoetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Space, Things I Love, Gaps

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• Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes, she takes us into the liquid realm of emotion, which she inhabits by Pisces intuition. Richard Burton said that Taylor showed him how to act for the camera. Economy and understatement are essential. At her best, Elizabeth Taylor simply is. An electric, erotic charge vibrates the space between her face and the lens. It is an extra-sensory, pagan phenomenon.

  Camille Paglia

  Eye, Film History, Space

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.16, Vintage

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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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• From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh

  Issey Miyake

  Moving, Clothes, Space

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