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#1

“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: beauty, creation, creator, life, poetry

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#2

“Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: animals, creation, destruction-of-nature, mankind

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#3

“Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists.

I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become thevictor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then it is the eternal
dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing...and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance.”
― Michael Jackson

tags: creation, dance

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#4

“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: creation, creativity, criticism, wisdom, wisdom-quote, wise

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#5

“By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.”
― Christian Dior

tags: art, creation, expression, natural, revolution, sincerity

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#6

“People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: alone, charge, creativity, designer, energy, fame, fashion, karl-lagerfeld, loneliness, lonely, media, quote, quotes, recharge, solitude, victory

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#7

“Still I chase the wind
   and float as a gentle breeze
  up among the stars
  then descending
  as a bird down amidst the trees.”
― Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

tags: compassion, empower, energy, gratitude, joy, personal-development, smile, soar, take-risks, wander

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#8

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: greatness, opposition, spirit

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#9

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
― Judy Garland

tags: be-yourself, greatness, individuality

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#10

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

tags: greatness, insanity, intelligence, sanity

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#11

“Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: greatness

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#12

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

tags: greatness

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#13

“Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: greatness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leaders, leadership, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, potential

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#14

“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

tags: accomplishments, african-american-authors, african-authors, agu-jaachynam-n-e, amazom, anyaele-sam-chiyson, aspiration, be-different, book, business, chiysonovelty-bookclub, elections, entrepreneurship, fame, forbes, greater-glory, greatness, higher-living, immortality, improvement, inspiration, international-authors, intimacy, it-is-time-to-get-very-rich, jaachynma, leadership, life, money, niche, nigerian-authors, president, reading, relationship, revolution, richest, risk-it, security, self-help, success, successful-living, the-best-option, the-prince-and-the-pauper, the-sagacity-of-sage, wealth

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#15

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]”
― Robert Hughes

tags: art, artists, cezanne, confidence, creative-process, depression, depression-humor, doubt, fame, fame-and-fortune, great-art, great-artist, greatness, humility, insecurity, introspection, narcissism, paul-cezanne, self-awareness, self-delusion, self-doubt, self-doubts, self-esteem, self-esteem-or-lack-thereof

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#16

“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: greatness, myth, pretension, sardonic

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#17

“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: greatness

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#18

“To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: excellence, greatness, legacy, power, revenge, righteousness, seek, vengeance, victory

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#19

“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

tags: defeat, greatness, heroic, triumph, victory

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#20

“When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.”
― Walter Payton

tags: greatness, inspirational

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#21

“Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”
― Emerson, Self Reliance

tags: greatness

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