Andy Couturier quotes
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“I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.”
-- Andy CouturierSource : Andy Couturier (2010). “A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance”, p.280, Stone Bridge Press
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“What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.”
-- Andy CouturierSource : Andy Couturier (2010). “A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance”, p.278, Stone Bridge Press
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“I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.”
-- Andy CouturierSource : Andy Couturier (2010). “A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance”, p.244, Stone Bridge Press
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“Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.”
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“Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.”
-- Andy CouturierSource : Andy Couturier (2010). “A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance”, p.222, Stone Bridge Press
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“Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.”
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“Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?”
-- Andy CouturierSource : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
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Source : "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics
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Source : Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
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