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Random quote of the day:

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow…”

—Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

Mr. Vonnegut liked this sentiment so well that he also used a variant of it here:
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Random quote of the day:

“The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.”

—Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun

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Random quote of the day:

“Tender words we spoke
to one another
are sealed
in the secret vaults of heaven.
One day like rain,
they will fall to earth
and grow green
all over the world.”

—Jelaluddin Rumi,
“Tender Words”

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Random quote of the day:

 

“I find that by the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.”

—George Orwell, “Why I Write”

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Random quote of the day:


“Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. It is out of the formlessness of the neutral zone that new form emerges and out of the barrenness of the fallow time that new life springs.”

—William Bridges, Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes

 

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Random quote of the day:

 

“For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

—Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution

 

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Random quote of the day:

“Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.”

—Twyla Tharp, “Your Creative DNA,” The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp with Mark Reiter

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