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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” – Hermann Hesse
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” – Rick Riordan
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” – Voltaire
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” – Pablo Neruda
“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzche
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.” – Jane Austen
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” – Chuck Klosterman
“To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.” – Lao Tzu
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” – Elie Wiesel
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“If you’re not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you’re not ready for that relationship.” – Steve Maraboli
“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or bear’s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.” – Meister Eckhart
“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” – Oscar Wilde
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.” – G.I. Gurdijieff
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.”
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” – Maya Angelou
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.” – Francis Bacon
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world.” – Albert Camus
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” – Albert Einstein
