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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.: Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.: Jane E. Brody
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.: Warren Beatty (1937 - )
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...: Trieu Thi Trinh
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.: James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
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Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.: Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712
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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.: A. J. Kitt
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.: Stephen Nachmanovitch
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The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.: Salma Hayek, Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.: Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
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The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.: Baltasar Gracian
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Reading is no substitute for action.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 07-26-08
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.: Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do"