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Willa Cather : I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. # Resignation # Death and Dying # Life and Living

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Learned Hand : " We like rather to dream of a body of young men as a live thing, as a tree where all the branches are nourished by a single sap, and where each part is meaningless and incomplete except in connection with its fellows. You may lop away the dead branches, you may bend the trunk, you may dig about it and water it; but leave it to assume its own form, do not constrain the peculiar roots, or you will have a crippled, gnarled monster, and no tree. " # Resignation # Death and Dying # Life and Living

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Henry David Thoreau : " What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. " # Resignation # Death and Dying # Life and Living

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Robert Burn : " I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. " # Resignation # Death and Dying # Life and Living

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W Somerset Maugham : " We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. " # Resignation # Death and Dying # Life and Living

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W Somerset Maugham : " …we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. " # Resignation # Death and Dying # Life and Living

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Joseph Conrad : " Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. " # Resignation # Death and Dying # Life and Living

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W Somerset Maugham : " I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. " # Resignation # Death and Dying # Life and Living

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Ambrose Bierce : " Resign, v. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage. " # Resignation # Death and Dying # Life and Living

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John Gay : " Shall ignorance of good and ill
Dare to direct the eternal will?
Seek virtue, and of that possest,
To Providence resign the rest. " # Resignation # Death and Dying # Life and Living

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William James : " Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing. " # Resignation # Death and Dying # Life and Living

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Willa Cather: " There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." # Adversity # Learning # Age and Aging

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Willa Cather: " That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great." # Happiness # Freedom # Power

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Willa Cather: " No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person." # Independence

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Willa Cather: " The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young." # Generations # Freedom # Power

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Willa Cather: " I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do." # Resignation # Death and Dying # Life and Living

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Willa Cather: " Where there is great love there are always miracles." # Miracles

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Willa Cather: " Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again." # Memory

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Willa Cather: " Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen." # Winter # Politicians and Politics # Death and Dying

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Willa Cather: " One might say that every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure; a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique. A quality which one can remember without the volume at hand, can experience over and over again in the mind but can never absolutely define, as one can experience in memory a melody, or the summer perfume of a garden... It is a common fallacy that a writer, if he is talented enough, can achieve this poignant quality by improving upon his subject-matter, by using his "imagination" upon it and twisting it to suit his purpose. The truth is that by such a process (which is not imaginative at all!) he can at best produce only a brilliant sham, which, like a badly built and pretentious house, looks poor and shabby after a few years. If he achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine. The artist spends a lifetime in pursuing the things that haunt him, in having his mind "teased" by them, in trying to get these conceptions down on paper exactly as they are to him and not in conventional poses supposed to reveal their character; trying this method and that, as a painter tries different lightings and different attitudes with his subject to catch the one that presents it more suggestively than any other. And at the end of a lifetime he emerges with much that is more or less happy experimenting, and comparatively little that is the very flower of himself and his genius." # Writers and Writing

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Willa Cather: " On starlight nights I used to pace up and down those long, cold streets, scowling at the little, sleeping houses on either side, with their storm-windows and covered back porches. They were flimsy shelters, most of them poorly built of light wood, with spindle porch-posts horribly mutilated by the turning-lathe. Yet for all their frailness, how much jealousy and envy and unhappiness some of them managed to contain! The life that went on in them seemed to me made up of evasions and negations; shifts to save cooking, to save washing and cleaning, devices to propitiate the tongue of gossip. This guarded mode of existence was like living under a tyranny. People's speech, their voices, their very glances, became furtive and repressed. Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark." # Writers and Writing

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