"Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist."

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Source : Kent Nerburn (2009). “The Hidden Beauty of Everyday Life”, p.66, New World Library

Kent Nerburn

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“Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?”

Source : "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.
“When I arrive at our training ground at Borussia Dortmund, everybody could hear just that a few seconds before I can actually be seen. Everybody knows it's me. I love to hear the machine working.”
“The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”
“Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.”
“The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. ... They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian government for power in our new country, and of course they worried that having a standing army around would create too much of a temptation to use it.”
“Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.”

Source : Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”
“Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.”
“Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.”

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