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- There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), Vesalius in Zante
- Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
- Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)
- Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
- Sharon Salzberg
- Energy is eternal delight.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
- John Berry, Flight of White Crows
- A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
- Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
- A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
- I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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