I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

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When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?

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You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

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A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. - Paul Klee

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Rules and models destroy genius and art. - William Hazlitt

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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

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If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

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In fair weather prepare for foul. - Thomas Fuller

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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. _ Friedrich Nietzsche

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