There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that's so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.

Jordan Peterson

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

President George Washington

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all… As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

G.K. Chesterton

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