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“If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.”

Ifs Men May Long Doe Has Beens Said Remember Faces Forget Danger Ready Circumstances Long Time Lays Profit Sentiments

Author:Confucius

“The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.”

Way May Long Art Life Is Pay Attention Struggle Gone Willing Honor Long Time Paid Regard Notes Rewards Privilege Creator Sensible Citing Art Life

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.”

May Long Has Beens Easy Doors Fronts Long Time Draws Standing Window Rhythm Shock Conception Elbows Counterparts Begin Again Front Doors

Author:Sean William Scott

“A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.”

Men May Long Said Book Earth Science Walks Gone Long Time

Author:John Muir

“Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place”

May Long Light Action Memories Sleep Influence Long Time Shadow Flash Stature

Book:John Muir: Nature Writings

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.”

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“Before one goes through the gate one may not be aware there is a gate One may think there is a gate to go through and look a long time for it without finding it One may find it and it may not open If it opens one may be through it As one goes through it one sees that the gate one went through was the self that went through it no one went through a gate there was no gate to go through no one ever found a gate no one ever realized there was never a gate”

Ifs Thinking Looks May Long Self Found Findings Long Time Gates

Book:Knots

Source: Knots