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The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one’s soul to grow.
– Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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  2. Pain helps the body grow.Riddles help the mind grow.Loss helps the heart grow.Temptations help the soul grow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  3. Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence. – Amit Ray
  4. Inner Peace can be seen as the ultimate benefit of practicing patience. – Allan Lokos
  5. The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  6. what you respond to in any work of art is the artist’s struggle against his or her limitations – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  7. Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  8. I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear. – Tupac Shakur
  9. Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive. – Sun Tzu
  10. Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled. – John Green
  11. Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence. – Bryant McGill
  12. Primary goal for the author: ‘Write what you mean to say’Primary goal for the reader: ‘Read what the author actually writes – Falcon Dove
  13. We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too. – Nick Hornby
  14. I’ve been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it. – Dean Koontz
  15. The benefit of being friends will vastly outweigh the benefit of being enemies. – RADelmonico
  16. If egoism is there, the benefit of the Self cannot be obtained and if the Self is there, the benefit of egoism cannot be obtained. – Dada Bhagwan
  17. Give others the benefit of the doubt. Until they run out of benefit and you run out of doubt. – Pen
  18. Give others the benefit of the doubt. Until they run out of benefit and you run out of doubt. – Pen
  19. Doing good makes you great. Bad things take away from good ones. Practicing Netiquette is all good. NetworkEtiquette.net – David Chiles
  20. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  21. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  22. Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  23. Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That’s what it is to be human, I’m afraid. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  24. Their beauty was to the beauty of Miss Canal Zone as the glory of the Sun was to the glory of a lightning bug. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  25. …a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  26. The mind reels. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  27. Don’t forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  28. Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  29. A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  30. People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  31. The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  32. I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  33. I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  34. To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That’s all right. I like to have my heart broken. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  35. Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  36. We didn’t belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  37. He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  38. Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  39. Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  40. He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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