"The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure."

Miller, Henry on failure
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"Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil."

Miller, Henry on example   

"The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal."

Miller, Henry on dream
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"No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance."

Miller, Henry on destiny
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"I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth."

Miller, Henry on decay
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because the people who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

Seuss, Dr. on self truth
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"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me."

Joplin, Janis on music quotes
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"Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary."

Harkness, Richard on committees and meetings   

"A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?"

Richards, Edward Hersey on silence
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"Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving."

Mayfield, Harold on progress
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"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."

Carnegie, Dale on fear
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"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest."

Tagore, Rabindranath on truth
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"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a God; look straight at me and you see yourself."

Manson, Charles on perspective
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"We're not in Wonderland anymore Alice."

Manson, Charles on madness
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"You want to kill me? Ha! I'm already dead, have been all my life."

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"You expect to break me? Impossible! You broke me years ago. You killed me years ago..."

Manson, Charles on strength
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"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."

Davis, Miles on music
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"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."

Duffecy, James on music
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"Without music, life is a journey through a desert."

Conroy, Pat on music
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"I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there."

Rimbaud, Arthur on hell   

"One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her."

Rimbaud, Arthur on beauty   

"I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known."

Confucius on fame
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"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development."

Confucius on growth
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"Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion."

Graham, Martha on dance and dancing
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"We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on dance and dancing
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why."

Baruch, Bernard M. on ask
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"When life gets you down, sometimes it's best to just stay down for a moment, let yourself rest... and then get up later."

Kessler, Daniella on rest
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"Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth."

Smart, Elizabeth on vanity   

"Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality."

Gardner, John W. on self-pity
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"Most people would rather die than think: many do."

Russell, Bertrand on death
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

Heinlein, Robert on love
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"Life is too short to Fuck Everyone you want"

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"What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death."

Blake, William on illusion   

"For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces --a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life."

Eliot, George on illusion
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"Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on illusion
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"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

Ali, Muhammad on imagination
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