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“Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.”

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Robert Browning was a prominent Victorian poet known for his intricate poetic structures and profound psychological insights. His works covered themes such as love, death, religion, and morality, and had a profound impact on later poets. more

“I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact - that we are the world and the world is us. The world is each one of us; to feel that, to be really committed to it and to nothing else, brings about a feeling of great responsibility and an action that must not be fragmentary, but whole.”

Thinking World Feels Whole Facts Feelings Action Responsibility Theory Concepts Committed Entertaining Great Responsibility

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.”

Thinking Knows Should Light Lord Study Tired Oneself Really Mean I'm Tired Cigar Enigma

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.”

Knows Changed

Author:Epictetus

“The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.”

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Author:Joan Jett

“And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.”

Knows Should Ideas Done Past Courses Forget Attachment Something New Our Past Holding On Alright

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself.”

Art Real Existence Fashion Genius Vices Real Life Complexity Entertaining Interiors Filling Surroundings Idleness Seriousness Exterior

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Do not underestimate objects.”

Objects Underestimate

Author:David Foster Wallace

“The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.”

Way Heart Art Said Support Virtue Masters My Heart Benevolence Recreation

Book:Confucius: The Analects

Source: Confucius: The Analects

“I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'”

Ifs May Children Seems Remember Young Church Answers Devil My Friends Tradition Dear Doctrine Impulse Adviser Sacredness

Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

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