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Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. -

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. – Matthew Arnold

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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power. – Matthew Arnold

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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances. – Matthew Arnold

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Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. – Matthew Arnold

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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. – Aristotle

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The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. – Will Smith

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot

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We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. – Author Unknown

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