"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on poetry and poets   

"Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself."

Saying, Zen on action
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"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

Francis, Brendan on acceptance
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"Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season."

Frost, Robert on acceptance
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"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

Moustakas, Clark on acceptance
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on achievement
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"Our lives teach us who we are."

Rushdie, Salman on knowledge
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"Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anxiety
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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

Kierkegaard, Søren on anxiety
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"Love is full of anxious fears."

Ovid on anxiety
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"Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on anxiety
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"The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last."

Wilde, Oscar on anxiety
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"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things"

Rilke, Rainer Maria on life
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"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on life
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"Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity."

Zinsser, William on writers and writing
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"I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli."

Bush, George on food and eating   

"If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue."

Bush, George on virtue   

"The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety."

Mueller, George E. on faith
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

Einstein, Albert on art
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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."

Barth, Karl on laughter
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"I have tried in my way to be free. "

Cohen, Leonard on
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"Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe."

Augustine, St. on faith
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"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

Kafka, Franz on poetry and poets   

"Who loves, raves."

Byron, Lord on love
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"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."

Santayana, George on happiness
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"All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!"

Castaneda, Carlos on art
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"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Kundera, Milan on memory   

"Optimism is the opium of the people."

Kundera, Milan on optimism
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"Solitude: a sweet absence of looks."

Kundera, Milan on solitude
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"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."

Kundera, Milan on passion
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"Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image of woman. The more technical and mechanical, cold and metallic it becomes, the more it will need the kind of warmth that only the woman can give it. If we want to save the world, we must adapt to the woman, let ourselves be led by the woman, let ourselves be penetrated by the Ewigweiblich, the eternally feminine!"

Kundera, Milan on women
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"It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet."

Kafka, Franz on experience