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The Art of Living

A Practical Guide to Being Alive

“Butterflies do not count in months, but in moments, and they are not short of time.” Rabindranath Tagore, India

“Sleep and rest just the amount of time you need, in order to experience the radical mystery of being alive as intensely as possible.” Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Spain

“No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.” Albert Einstein, USA

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Pablo Picasso, Spain

“Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.” Carlos Fuentes, Mexico

“Where there is love, there is life.” Mahatma Gandhi, India

“Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every day of our life, if we only will tune in.” George Washington Carver, USA

“Laughter is the language of the soul. ” Pablo Neruda, Chile

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Maya Angelou, USA

“Every individual makes a difference every single day.” Jane Goodall, England

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” Lao Zi, China

“There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.” Denis Diderot, France

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia

“There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.” Denis Diderot, France

“We are each other’s business; we are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” Gwendolyn Brooks, USA

“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.” Jim Morrison, USA

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“We are each other’s business; we are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.”

Gwendolyn Brooks, USA

Poet and Writer

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Posted by: Claire Terry on 29 Dec 2010

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