“ There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be. ”
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“ The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy… and failure is death. Add to this… the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him… By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. ”
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“ Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ”
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“ As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. ”
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“ Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up. ”
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“ I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up. ”
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“ To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. ”
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“ Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought. ”
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“ I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. ”
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“ To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. ”
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“ I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. ”
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“ I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. ”
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“ The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ”
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“ I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. ”
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“ Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... Wang Lung ”
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“ The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit. ”
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“ The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit. ”
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“ None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. ”
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“ When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after. ”
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“ None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. ”
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“ In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder. ”
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“ The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. ”
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“ To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. ”
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“ I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. ”
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