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- [Water is] the only drink for a wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
- Christina Baldwin
- The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
- Louise Erdrich
- Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
- I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
- John Constable (1776 - 1837)
- A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
- Grace Murray Hopper (1906 - 1992)
- Walking is man's best medicine.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
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