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"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
"Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us."
"To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle."
"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love."
"I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth."
"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur."
"An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."
"Everything hinges on how you look at things"
"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself."
"Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed."
"Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine."
"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."
"When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence."
"Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths."
"Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated."
"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood."
"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy."
"The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it."
"Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire."
"We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way."