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Quotes About Creation

That which one can create can always be depended on.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Consciously or unconsciously we call to us that element which makes us what we are. What we experience in life, therefore, has either come from what we have already called to us in the past, or from what we call at the present moment. It
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Weil das menschliche Wesen alles, was im Himmel und auf Erden ist, in sich trägt, wird der Mensch als ein Universum in sich selbst bezeichnet. Gott sagt in Bezug auf den Menschen im Koran: "Wir haben ihn zu unserem Kalifen gemacht." (Koran 2:30) Mit Kalif ist gemeint, dass der Mensch ein Repräsentant Gottes, ein Anführer ist, unter dessen Obhut das Universum gestellt ist; denn das menschliche Wesen ist selbst ein Universum. (S. 124)
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
In Nietzsche's framework, joy is the feeling of your power increasing. [...] Power comes in many forms, one of which is mastery. As we become expert—in creation or discovery, in helping or healing, in communicating or leading—we gain power. That power is revealed in flow, and in joy.
~ Heather E. Heying
The stars blink their existence into the world in sentient binary codes.
~ Heather Lydia Thornhill
Your words seem broken but they are new, as new as the God that made you you.
~ Heather Lydia Thornhill
writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.
~ Heather Sellers
Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than writing a whole bunch of reports. What's in your head does not count, not for sculpture, not for book writing. Pencil on paper is what matters. Words on paper, pages and pages, chapter after chapter.
~ Heather Sellers
Yes, there was a trick to it. You inherited your life, or you invented it. You figured out what you wanted life to be and then somehow or other you made it that way. Then, miracle of miracles, you liked it!
~ Laurie Colwin
Like all creations, I have come to understand that the messages I received have their own path to follow, and their own timing in which they needed to be set free.
~ Laurie E. Smith
It's your story, sweetheart. Not just your story to pass on. Your story to make up as well. Over time, stories change; they shift; they become something new but with elements of the original and elements of what's to come.
~ Laurie Frankel
That is the other thing novelist do. We imagine the world we hope for and endeavor, with the greatest power we have, to bring that world into being.
~ Laurie Frankel
If you wrote your own characters, they didn't disappoint you like real people did.
~ Laurie Frankel
This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true.
~ Laurie Frankel
We imagine the world we hope for and endeavor, with the greatest power we have, to bring that world into being.
~ Laurie Frankel
In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The value any business creates, listed or not, is determined by the rate at which it deploys incremental capital. And
~ Lawrence A. Cunningham
Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.
~ lawrence d h iii
Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.
~ lawrence d h iv
From the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and ... the fulfilling of those desires is the fulfilling of creation.
~ lawrence d h v
God created strategy by allowing choice,
~ Lawrence Freedman
The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make alterations.
~ Lawrence Kasdan
You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars. And the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
~ Lawrence Krauss
Genesis' saying that we are made in the likeness of God does not mean that God looks a little like us, with a face and a body, arms and legs, but that at the time of the creation of the first man and woman, human beings did not know or care about a tangible likeness, about the fact that they had bodies. The awareness of them is an invention of the human self, idolatrously preoccupied with wanting something to look at in the mirror.
~ Lawrence Kushner