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«The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.»
«The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.»
«The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.»
«The art is long, life is short»
Author: Hippocrates | About: Art, Life
«They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind; In those whom they have blessed, they live a life again, And shall live, through the years, Eternal life, and grow each day more beautiful As time declares their good, Forgets the rest, and prove»
«The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.»
Author: Anatole France (Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: average, This Life
«The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper»
«The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.»
«They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.»
«They that mistake life's accessories for life itself are like them that go too fast in a maze: their very haste confuses them»
Author: Seneca | About: Life | Keywords: accessories, accessory, confuses, maze, mazes