Don Altman quotes
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“To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.”
-- Don AltmanSource : Don Altman (2011). “One-minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-out World”, p.18, New World Library
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“If everybody did just one thing. Just one thing. Not even a great thing. Not a world-changing thing, just one blessing, just one act of living kindness. The effect of each caring action, no matter how seemingly small, brings blessings into the lives of others. There may be no greater or more important thing that we can do at this instant.”
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“And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire.”
-- Don Altman
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“If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.”
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“Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.”
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“The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.”
Source : Program notes to "Avak The Healer", 1946.
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Source : Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books
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