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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.: Mary Daly
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Atlantic Monthly, January 1869
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), 'Eleanora,' 1842
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Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
College isn't the place to go for ideas.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?: Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Escape from New York, 2000
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.: Hortense Calisher
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It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.: Jerry Garcia
Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home.: April Foiles
[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.: Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.: Jean Kerr
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.: Diane Wakoski
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.: Ronnie Shakes