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- Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
- Hope is only the love of life.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Hope is necessary in every condition.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
- Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923)
- The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
- Edith Sodergran
- The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
- Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
- I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark
- The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
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