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- Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
- Elizabeth Goudge
- Hope is only the love of life.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- While there's life, there's hope.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Ad Atticum
- Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
- Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923)
- She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark
- I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.
- Etty Hillesum
- Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
- don Miguel Ruiz
- Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
- Adele Brookman
- My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
- Miles Davis (1926 - 1991)
- It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
- Vida D. Scudder
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