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«He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.»
«Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert (Novelist) | About: Art | Keywords: artists, attain
«A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable»
Author: Richard Byrd | About: Wisdom | Keywords: attain, indispensable, recognizes
«I believe in a long, prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown. Our pale reasoning hides the infinite from us.»
«It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.»
«God endowed [the human race] with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good and behold it face to face.»
«It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.»
«All that spirits desire, spirits attain.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Spirit | Keywords: attain, spirits
«All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions»
«It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.»

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