Quotes About Devotion

He recognized that he was feeling something he had never experienced before : the desire to live in one place forever. With the girl with the raven hair his days would never be the same again

I will talk about my dances...when I was onstage I simply forgot about the woman I was and offered everything to God. That is why I was able to undress so easily. At that moment, I was nothing, not even my body. I was just movements communing with the universe.

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

The only greatness is unselfish Love.

True love could withstand such a separation.

Love would never keep a man from his Personal Legend.

Nothing is menial where there is love.

You must set forth and find the center of your interest. You are a creator, but you must find your interest and then dedicate yourself to that interest—not to the act of creativity. Merely to want to create will make it impossible for you to do so. You must find an interest greater than yourself—a love, perhaps—and then the power to create will set you on fire.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever.

With increasing passion she loved beauty, for beauty, she told herself, and only beauty, was pure and good and worthy of her love.

Ah well, Liang was her husband and she would never have another. Even had she been young and beautiful she would not have run from man to man as women did nowadays. But she was neither young nor beautiful and she was grateful for Liang. It was honorable to be his wife, and if he had a peevish temper at home, he might have been worse. He had never beaten her, and she had learned, after all these years, how to torture him.

Y que más? ¿Qué más quieres? Que me ames un poquito. Tú sabes que te quiero más que un poquito. No es lo mismo, entre amar y querer hay un mundo de diferencia. Te quiero con tu diferencia. No es lo mismo. YO POR TI, como dice una canción, CONTARÍA LA ARENA DEL MAR (con los ojos entornados). POR TI YO SERÍA CAPAZ DE MATAR.

Y allí soltaron la risa, y ahí rieron a más no poder, como si sus corazones salpicaran juntos el arrebato pendejo de un errante frenesí. Qué le importaba a ella lo que pasara, qué le importaría llorar el después, si en ese momento podría morir de solo mirarlo, de solo sentir su mano amarrándole los hombros con el cariño cotorro de su abrazo.

Our devotion to a teacher has nothing to do with his or her lifestyle or worldly accomplishments. It's their state of mind, the quality of their heart that we resonate with. When it comes to my teacher Chögyam Trungpa, he was so outrageous in his behavior that I could never model myself after him. But I do try to model myself on his way of being. He showed me by his example that we can rouse ourselves fearlessly and encourage one another to be sane.

We see ourselves in every episode; we realize that it's possible to keep going and never give up. We feel devotion toward the lineage of people who have worked so hard to make it easier for us.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage 'Thou art all' and 'Thy will be done'.

Art is a kind of illness.

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

Sleep with rockstars...Support the arts.

Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.