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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.

When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.

Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.