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The Art of Living
A Practical Guide to Being Alive
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates, Classical Greece
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut, USA
We are each other’s business; we are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s magnitude and bond. Gwendolyn Brooks, USA
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. Janis Joplin, USA
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. Ezra Pound, USA
There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. Anthony Rapp, USA
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller, USA
We love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. Friedrich Nietzsche, Germany
The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgement. J. Krishnamurti, India
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and... F. Scott Fitzgerald, USA
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. Jack Kerouac, USA
You must never understand life, and then, it will be like a party. Rainer Maria Rilke, Austria
The days that make us happy make us wise. John Masefield, England
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. Anaïs Nin, France
We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future. Amin Maalouf, Lebanon
(Submitted by Donna Moran, USA)
Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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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
