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To die is nothing... but it is terrible not to live. Victor Hugo

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible. Eric Hoffer

is a thing we do by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments. Ralph Waldo Emerson

is only forced in vain into a mold. When it goes to work to obtain a certain result, we find its way of working is just that of which we should never have thought.

In vain we force the living into this or that one of our molds. All the molds crack. They are too narrow, above all too rigid, for what we try to put into them. Our reasoning, so sure of itself among things inert, feels ill at ease on this new ground. It would be difficult to cite a biological discovery due to pure reasoning. And most often, when experience has finally shown us how life goes to work to obtain a certain result, we find its way of working is just that of which we should never have thought. (bergson 'creative evolution 2).

is always to live-in-certainty-of-the-world.

The world is pregiven to us, the waking, always somehow practically interested subjects, not occasionally but always and necessarily as the universal field of all actual and possible praxis, as horizon. To live is always to live-incertainty-of-the-world.43 (Husserl in Natanson 1998 : 44)

is an art similar to medicine, engineering, and painting. It is the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts... living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man. Erich Fromm

is an art that is more like wrestling than dancing.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

is an art which is less about eliminating troubles than growing with them.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. Bernard Baruch

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