"Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority."

Life, Art, Virtue, Authority

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"Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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"The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?"

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Life, End, Meaning, Measure

"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Life, Man, Taste

"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Life, Goal, Artist, Mind

"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting."

P. G. Wodehouse, English Writer

Life, Despair, Salvation, Worth

"The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?"

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Creation, Truth, Wisdom

"To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth, Power

"If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."

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"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."

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"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."

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"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."

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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

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"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."

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"Order is power."

Power

"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."

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"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false."

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"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."

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