Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation and without being allowed the preliminary trials the failures and botches that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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E.e. Cummings
The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.
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Lisa Wingate
It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
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Shauna Niequist
Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.
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Mhairi McFarlane
I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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Mark Twain
More Quotes By Lewis Mumford
Let us fool ourselves no longer. At the very moment Western nations, threw off the ancient regime of absolute government, operating under a once-divine king, they were restoring this same system in a far more effective form in their technology, reintroducing coercions of a military...
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they...
This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid. It is a world where the great masses of people, unable to have direct contact with more satisfying means of living, take life vicariously, as...
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
The artist has a special task and duty the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
