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• The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  World, Obsession, Whole Life

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Uncles, Laughter

  "My Life". Book by William J. Clinton, 2004.

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• I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.

  Heinrich Heine

  Men, Skills, Church

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.210

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• You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Needs, Cheap Things

  Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the stream”, Scribner Book Company

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• Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?

  Robin Morgan

  Self, World, Splits

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• It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.

  Alfred Adler

  Believe, Long, Done

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• Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

  Alfred Adler

  Mistake, Persistence, Swim

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• The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

  Bernard Berenson

  Stress, Healing, Passion

  Bernard Berenson (1968). “The Florentine painters. The Central Italian painters”

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• The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

  Joel Salatin

  Animal, Cycle Of Life, Want

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• All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Life, Doe, Able

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• Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

  Georges Braque

  Men, Poetry, Painting

  Georges Braque (1964). “Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute”

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• It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Woe Is Me, Evil, Would Be

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• When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Fighting, Order

  Letter to Theo van Gogh, May 30, 1877.

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• To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Real, Home

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

  Etty Hillesum

  Trying, Nuance, Endless

  Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

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• Life is hard if you think it's hard.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Life Is Hard, Ifs

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.85, Bantam

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• There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Family, Moving, Track

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• Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.

  Francoise Sagan

  Aversion, Littles, Rage

  "Scars on the Soul". Book by Françoise Sagan, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, 1974.

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• We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Guilt, Doctrine, Strikes

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.954, Penguin

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• Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.

  Jackie Gleason

  Joy, Feelings, Life Is Great

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• Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Funny, Humor, Perspective

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• Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Bears, Done

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• To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

  Joseph Joubert

  Education, Children, Parent

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• The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.

  Marianne Williamson

  Circumstances, Shows, Right Now

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.31, Penguin

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• The one seeking to demonstrate the power of spiritual realization in everyday affairs should believe in Divine guidance... and that everything in life is controlled by love, harmony, and peace.

  Ernest Holmes

  Spiritual, Believe, Divine Guidance

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.118, Penguin

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