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- Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost.
- Mary C. Taylor, Watercolor Bold and Free
- Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
- Meredith Willson, The Music Man
- The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
- Seth MacFarlane, The Family Guy
- The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.
- Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), Tragedy and the Common Man
- Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), My Antonia
- Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now!
- Michael Landon (1936 - 1991)
- There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
- Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
- If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), Mere Christianity
- The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
- John Clarke, Economist
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