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Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

Erich Fromm

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Success depends on previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Confucius

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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

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The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I always identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.

Jack Kerouac

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

May Sarton

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The act of creation is an attempt to enter a mysterious realm. A longing to transcend. What we create allows us to share glimpses of an inner landscape, one that is beyond our understanding. Art is our portal to the unseen world.

Rick Rubin

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Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

Rumi

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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Most men are much too concerned with themselves to be malicious.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

Seneca

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Do it or do not do it- you will regret both.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.

Heinrich Heine

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Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation