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Quotes About Richness

I love my kids so much. They teach me something every day. It always brings richness to my work, and even more in life. I feel lucky to be able to do both.
~ Blair Underwood
Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God.
~ Lucy Larcom
Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.
~ Annette Bening
You can create something strong in art with a few notes. It is like how Aboriginal drawings have a simplicity that is incredibly rich.
~ Ludovico Einaudi
I think cross-cultural dialogue is something that has hugely impacted the richness of the culture of our world.
~ Anoushka Shankar
I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.
~ Richard Gere
There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality then it is a quality of the spirit.
~ Tom Wolfe
Navajos did not kill with cold-blooded premeditation. Nor did they kill for profit. To do so violated the scale of values of The People. Beyond meeting simple immediate needs, the Navajo Way placed little worth on property. In fact, being richer than one's clansmen carried with it a social stigma. It was unnatural, and therefore suspicious.
~ Tony Hillerman
We all have tremendous potential and yet we stay closed in a very small, fearful world, based on wanting to avoid the unpleasant, the painful, the insecure, the unpredictable. There is vast, limitless richness and wonder we could experience if we fully accustomed our nervous systems to the open-ended, uncertain reality of how things are.
~ Pema Chodron
...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
~ Henri Matisse
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear - Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
~ William Shakespeare
Ah, she doth teach the torches to burn bright, it seems she hangs against the cheek of night like a rich jewel from an Ethiope's ear, beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
~ William Shakespeare
Oh, lovely world,' thought Sarah, in love with life and all its varied richness.
~ Winifred Holtby
There was a sense of gravity and richness to his teaching because you knew he really believed what he was saying.
~ Unknown
And I possessed the gift of vanishing before astonished eyes, which is the richest of all. I am too close, too close for him to dream of me. I slip my arm from underneath his sleeping head— it's numb, swarming with imaginary pins. A host of fallen angels perches on each tip, waiting to be counted.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
this is a feast of words.
~ Clarice Lispector
Flores envenenadas na jarra. Roxas azuis, encarnadas, atapetam o ar. Que riqueza de hospital. Nunca vi mais belas e mais perigosas. É assim então o teu segredo. Teu segredo é tão parecido contigo que nada me revela além do que já sei. E sei tão pouco como se o teu enigma fosse eu. Assim como tu és o meu.
~ Clarice Lispector
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
~ Claude Monet
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
~ Herbert Read
Life often mocks every system; it is richer and fuller than the deepest thinker in all his wisdom can imagine.
~ Herman Bavinck
That was how she felt, right then. As if there was too much of her, as if her skin was tight with muchness. She felt ripe to bursting.
~ Holly Black
Wine is brought in coloured carafes. They glow aquamarine and sapphire, citrine and ruby, amethyst and topaz. Another course comes, with sugared violets and frozen dew. Then come domes of glass, under which little silvery fish sit in a cloud of pale blue smoke.
~ Holly Black
Cushions and rugs, goblets and trays and half-full decanters cover every surface- all of them in a riot of colours: vermillion and umber, peacock blue and bottle green, gold and damson plum.
~ Holly Black
Furnished in elaborate velvets, silks, and brocades, it's a riot of scarlet and deep blues and greens, everything rich and dark, like overripe fruit. The patterns on the material are the sorts of things I have become accustomed to- intricate braids of briars, leaves that might also be spiders when you looked at them from another angle, and a depiction of a hunt where it is unclear which of the creatures is hunting the other.
~ Holly Black