Montreal Botanical Gardens
Quote-of-The-Week from days gone by…
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
Dr. Seuss
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“Walls turned sideways are bridges.”
Angela Davis
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“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.”
Phil Ochs
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“Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up.”
~David Orr
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“I tend to just follow suggestions from my subconscious…For me the process of trial and error is like swallowing mental sand from oysters in the hopes my subconscious will give me pearls.”
Kenny Shopsin
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“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
~Hans Christian Andersen
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“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
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“The Human Foot is a Masterpiece of Engineering and a Work of Art”
Leonardo da Vinci
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“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”
Deepak Chopra
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“It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.”
Ursula Le Guin
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“Keep me Low.
Give me Clarity.
Give me the courage to do it.”
John Woolman
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“I always say: dare to struggle, dare to grin.”
Wavy Gravy
“If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.”
Inuit Saying
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“Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.”
~Bilbo Baggins’ song Upon the Hearth the Fire is Red
(J. R. R. Tolkien)
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“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”
~ John Muir
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“We know what we are,
but know not what we may be.”
~William Shakespeare
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“For all that has been,
Thank you.
For all that is to come,
Yes!”
~Dag Hammarskjold
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“Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.”
Pema Chodron
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“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
Anais Nin
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“When you possess light within, you see it externally.”
– Anaïs Nin
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“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
Ursula LeGuin
.
“One does not seek to see himself in running water, but in still water.”
Chuang Tau
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“Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.”
Wavy Gravy
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“May your charity increase as much as your wealth.”
Inuit Saying
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“Take only memories, leave only footprints.”
– Chief Seattle
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“As you grow older you discover you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
Audrey Hepburn
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“The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous”
John le Carré
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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
Albert Camus
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“We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.”
Wavy Gravy
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“I like living.
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
Agatha Christie
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“The study of change is the study of survival.”
Edward T. Hall
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“A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”
Anne Bronte
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“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
William Shakespeare
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GASHKOZIN.
NIIBAWIN.
GIIGIDOON.
Wake up.
Stand up.
Speak up.
~Ojibwe Language Work by Ashley Fairbanks
Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen.”
– Mark Hertsgaard
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“A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
Mark Twain
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“Glorious it is when wandering time is come”
Inuit saying
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“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
John Churton Collins
.
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
Lao Tzu
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“Pick up a sesame seed but lose sight of a watermelon.”
Traditional Proverb
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“Baskets forever; housework whenever!”
– Poppy Hatinger
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“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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‘There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.’
Steven Wright
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“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”
Ursula LeGuin
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“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
(The Riddle of Strider from “The Fellowship of the Ring”)
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“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”
Edward Abbey
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“The Earth laughs in flowers.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
Milton Berle
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“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
Margaret Atwood
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“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
C. S. Lewis
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“No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.”
Sheryl Crow
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“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.”
Unknown, but it sounds like my father
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“Nya b’a’n tu’n t-xi tewin chib’aj cye tuliy, ku’n ajo chib’aj b’e’x cy-elil× chuk-ix.
It is not good to hide good food from visitors because it will turn into worms.”
Mayan Proverb
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“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
Hal Borland
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“The deep roots never doubt spring will come.”
Marty Rubin
..
“Walk tall as the trees, live strong as the mountains, be gentle as the spring winds, keep the warmth of the summer sun in your heart and the great spirit will always be with you.”
~Native American proverb
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“Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.”
― Mary Oliver
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“Love is not an equation, it is not a contract,
and it is not a happy ending.
Love is the slate under the chalk,
the ground that buildings rise,
and the oxygen in the air.
It is the place you come back to,
no matter where your headed.”
~ Jodi Picoult ~
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“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you
believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take
responsibility for making it so. If you assume there is no hope, you
guarantee there will be no hope.”
– Noam Chomsky
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“When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our inner senses. Infused with silence and solitude, they bring out the mystery of inner landscape.”.
– John O’Donohue, ‘Anam Cara’
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“I think 99 times and find nothing.
I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.”
Albert Einstein
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“…and I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
Emily Dickinson
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“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.”
~Walter Anderson
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We, who have been given much, whose voices can be heard, have a great duty and responsibility to make our voices heard with absolute integrity for those who are powerless.”
~John O’Donohue
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“I have the opportunity once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.”
William Arthur Ward
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“In 2018 I wish you joyous eruptions of profound gratification and
gratitude; a constant flow of fluid insights and “ah-ha!” revelations that
lead to cathartic integrations; a coming together of several different lucky
trends, resulting in an exquisite healing; and captivating yet relaxing
adventures that allow you to weave together diverse threads of your
experience, inspiring you to feel at home in the world.”
-Rob Brezney
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“The bee has a sting but honey too.”
– Biet har gadd men också honung.
Swedish saying
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“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
Desmond Tutu
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“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”
~George Bernard Shaw
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“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
William Blake
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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“When humor goes, there goes civilization.”
Erma Bombeck
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“Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie. “That’s why they’re monsters.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“But perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
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“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
Diane Ackerman
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“If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?”
Steven Wright
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“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”
~Thich Nhat Hanh
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“If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.”
Erma Bombeck
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“When we are no longer able to change a situation … we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Viktor Frankl (1905–1997)
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“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The time comes when the pain to remain a
caterpillar is greater than the metamorphosis
it takes to become a butterfly.”
AlexSandra Lett
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“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
Erma Bombeck
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‘Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.’
Buddha
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“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.”
Agatha Christie
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“Start where you are.
Do what you can.
You will be surprised by the JOY.
Flex your JOY muscles!”
Desmond Tutu
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“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
John Muir
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“The one unchangeable certainty is that
nothing is unchangeable or certain.”
John F. Kennedy
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“To err is human, but it feels divine.”
Mae West
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“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.”
Kahlil Gibran
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“The slower one works, the fewer mistakes one makes”
Doane’s Law of Procrastination
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“If I cannot fly, let me sing.”
-Stephen Sondheim
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”Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
Pablo Neruda
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“Barriga llena, corazón contento.”
Full stomach, happy heart.
~Mexican saying
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“A drop of ink may make a million think.”
Lord Byron
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“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
Pablo Neruda
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“Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein
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“May: the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself.”
Marty Rubin
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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Agatha Christie
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“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”
Harriet Tubman
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“The sooner you fall behind the more time you have to catch up.”
Steven Wright
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“A fuerza, ni los zapatos entran.”
You can’t force your shoes to fit. You can’t force your way into anything.
Mexican saying
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“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”
e.e. cummings
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“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”
~ Robert Frost
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“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
e. e. cummings
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“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
Agatha Christie
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“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
Ursula Le Guin
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“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
Lord Byron
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They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.”
Mexican Proverb
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“…and your very flesh shall be a great poem”
Walt Whitman
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“We’re not strong because we struggle, we struggle because we’re strong.”
― Ken Bivins, the Wedding & Disaster of Felona Mabel
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“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future,”
“Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are
unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume
there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.”
Noam Chomsky
.
“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”
– Robert H Schuller
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“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you
select your clothes every day. That’s a power you can cultivate. If you
want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the
only thing you should be trying to control.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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“We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.”
– Earl Nightingale
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“There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
– Edith Wharton
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“I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
– Og Mandino
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“Real knowledge is to know
the extent of one’s ignorance.”
Confucius
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“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
– Mother Teresa
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“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a
stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light
from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.”
-Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin
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“Earth’s crammed with heaven….”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
Humbert Wolfe
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“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
Virginia Woolf
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“Experience is the sinking feeling you have made this mistake before.”
old saying, author unknown
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“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.”
Ursula Le Guin
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“Keep your chin up, but not so high that you can’t see what’s ahead of you.”
Odin Wilde
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“Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.”
Elayne Boosler
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“Cheesecake with a side of bacon, please.”
Kevin Rutledge
.
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
Native American Proverb
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“Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.”
~ Mark Twain
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“If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr.”
Barbara L. Diamond
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“One cat just leads to another.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”
Joseph Wood
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“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”
Albert Schweitzer
.
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
Sigmund Freud
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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
.
“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”
Robert Delaunay
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“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.“
-Claude Monet
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“There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”
-Dejan Stojakovic
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“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
We are the kiss between earth and heaven,
We are the song between sky and ground.
Sing for your life and for the world we’re making.
Nothing is lost that can’t be found.
~Gerri Ravyn Stanfield
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“Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.”
-J.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit
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“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
-Richard Adams, Watership Down
The Stars
The stars are grains of salt
thrown over God’s shoulder.
They fly from us and we fly after.
But the heart, that dark star,
the heart that heavy planet,
is all we can know of heaven.
–Morton Marcus
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“Joy and sorrow are inseparable…together they come, and when one sits alone with you…remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
-Kahlil Gibran
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“A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory.”
Mark Twain
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“I am breathing tree. Tree is breathing me.
Symbiotic mystery…breathing tree and me.”
Barbara McAfee
.
“Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
Ursula LeGuin
.
“You never change things by fighting the existing
reality. To change something, build a new model
that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Buckminster Fuller
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“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
— Emily Dickinson
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“If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.”
~ Frank Lane
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“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.”
Mark Twain
.
“It is often that a person’s mouth broke his nose.”
-Irish saying
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“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won’t help.”
Calvin and Hobbes
.
“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
Jim Carrey
.
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”
~George Eliot
“Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.”
Margaret Shepherd
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“The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.”
Phyllis Diller
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“May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.”
Irish proverb
.
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”
~ Anthony J. D’Angelo
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world.”
-Neil Gaiman
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To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“Weather is a great metaphor for life–sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, and there’s nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.”
~ Pepper Giardino
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“If at first you don’t succeed, so much for skydiving.”
Henny Youngman
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“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”
~Jewish Proverb
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“If the only prayer you say in your entire life is ‘Thank you’, that would suffice.”
~Meister Eckhart
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“The problem, if you love it, is as beautiful as the sunset,”
J. Krishnamurti.
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“Quests always have their ups and downs,’ rumbled the giant. ‘The point is never to give up, even if you’re falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.”
Nancy Farmer
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“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
Erma Bombeck
.
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”
~George Carlin
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“Don’t ask for things to be easier, ask to be stronger and wiser.”
Unknown
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“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”
Fred Allen
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“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in”
~Leonard Cohen
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“It ain’t the heat; it’s the humility.”
~Yogi Berra
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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
Albert Camus
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“I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
– Vincent van Gogh
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
Anthony Burgess
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“A single, ordinary person still can make a difference – and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.”
Chris Bohjalian
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“If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late.”
Henny Youngman
“Too much agreement kills a chat.”
Eldridge Cleaver
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“The obstacle is the path.”
Zen proverb
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“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even
if I may not have it at the beginning.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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“The best mind altering drug is truth.”
Lily Tomlin
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“Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.”
~Kim Hubbard
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“Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.”
~Thor Heyerdahl
“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.”
~Pete Seeger
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~Erma Bombeck
“Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.”
~Albert Einstein
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“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”
~Miles Davis
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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”
~Steven Hawking
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“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
.
“I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not”
~ Lucille Ball
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“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”
~James Dean
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“The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”
~Lily Tomlin quote
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“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”
~Mae West
“Never take life seriously…nobody ever gets out alive anyway.”
~Anon
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“If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.”
Erma Bombeck
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“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.”
Edward R. Murrow
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“–You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
–What mood is that?
–Last-minute panic.”
Calvin and Hobbes
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“We can’t think outside the box when thinking is the box.”
Michael Brown
.
“For fast acting relief, try slowing down.”
Lily Tomlin
“If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?”
Steven Wright
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“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet you’d best take it out and teach it to DANCE!”
-George Bernard Shaw
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“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
Henri Matisse
“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”
-Chuck Palahniuk
.
“A curse that is a blessing is a Blursing.”
Evan Hodkins
“Courage is being scared to death – and saddling up anyway.”
John Wayne
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“Learn how to live, and you’ll know how to die; learn how to die, and you’ll learn how to live.”
Morrie Schwartz
.
“My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.”
Emo Phillips
“If the only prayer you say in your entire life is “Thank you” that would suffice.”
~Meister Eckhart
“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.”
Barbara Johnson
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“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”
Kabir
“To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist. The problem is entirely the same in both cases: to know how much oil one must mix with one’s vinegar.”
Oscar Wilde
“Upon arising on a day with much to be done, dress slowly.”
~My father quoting a Chinese Saying
“Dogs have Owners, Cats have Staff.”
“A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.”
Milton Berle
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
Don Marquis
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Mark Twain
“A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.”
Jerry Seinfeld
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
Dr. Seuss
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
Groucho Marx
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“You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.”
~ Viktor Frankl
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Seriousness and pleasure should thrive together.
Allvar och gamman trives gärna samman.
~Swedish saying
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
Mark Twain
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“My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.”
Mike Myers
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”
~George Carlin
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“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
~Mahatma Gandhi
“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”
~Miles Davis
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“As we express gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter the words, but to live by them.”
~JFK
“I really don’t think I need buns of steel. I’d be happy with buns of cinnamon.”
Ellen DeGeneres
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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
Dr. Seuss
“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
Will Rogers
.
Allting går igen.
Everything comes round.
~Swedish saying
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“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
Harriet Tubman
“Expectation is the root of all heartache. “
William Shakespeare
“I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.”
Billy Connolly
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“Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will get you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein
.
“What is reality anyway? Just a collective hunch.”
Lily Tomlin
“There is more wisdom in your bodies than in your deepest philosophies”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“We are all in this together, by ourselves.”
Lily Tomlin
.
Bakom berget finns också folk
(Behind the mountain there are people too)
Swedish saying
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“Never test the depth of the water with both feet.”
Old saying
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“What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? A rash of good luck.”
~Author Unknown
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“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
“Winter is dead.”
-A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
John W. Gardner
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“I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.”
~ 4-year-old Lauren
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“It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or
ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which, if you consider them well, you may find really marvelous ideas.”
~Leonardo da Vinci
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“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.”
Lilly Pulitzer
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“You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.”
Guy Kawasaki
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“Diaper backwards spells repaid. Think about it”
Marshall McLuhan
“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.”
Will Rogers
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“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
Erica Jong
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“A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.”
Spike Milligan
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“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”
Maya Angelou
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More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you’ve been bad and good.
~Linda Sunshine
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“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
André Gide
– then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
John Steinbeck
“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes…only sooner.”
Tallulah Bankhead
“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”
Elbert Hubbard
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“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.”
Tom Krause
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‘Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
Buddha
“If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.”
Dag Hammarskjold
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“A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
Yogi Berra
“He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.”
Georg Brandes
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.”
E.B. White
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
Mark Twain
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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”
Mae West
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”
Confucius
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“Eat, Drink and Be Scary.”
Unknown
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
Dr. Seuss
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Soren Kierkegaard
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“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
Albert Einstein
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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
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“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
-George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
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“Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement.”
Fred Brooks
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“What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.”
Vern McLellan
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“For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!”
Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.”
Ellen Goodman
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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
Helen Keller
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
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“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The journey is the reward.”
—Steve Jobs
“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.”
Eric Fromm
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“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
Bertrand Russell
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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.”
Elbert Hubbard
How do people make it through life without a sister?
~Sara Corpening
“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart.
Learn to love the questions themselves.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.”
Dag Hammarskjold
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“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.”
Chinese Proverb
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Ingenting under solen är beständigt.
Nothing beneath the sun is lasting.
Swedish proverb
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“We do not remember days.
We remember moments.”
Cesare Pavese
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“Humor does not diminish the pain – it makes the space around it get bigger.”
Allen Klein
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“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
Walt Whitman
“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
Mae West
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“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
Vincent Van Gogh
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“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
The Great Gatsby
“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,’I will try again tomorrow.’ “
Mary Anne Radmacher
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“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”
Charlie Chaplin
“ Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.”
~Oscar Wilde
“Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.”
Whoopi Goldberg
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
-Dr. Seuss
“Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.”
Steven Wright
“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
Ingrid Bergman
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“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”
Zhuangzi
“Rock is so much fun. That’s what it’s all about – filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.”
Jimi Hendrix
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“Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.“
Franklin P. Jones
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“Peace can never be achieved by force.
It can only be achieved by understanding.”
Albert Einstein
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“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”
Raymond Lindquist
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“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
Margaret Mead
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“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
Joseph Chilton Pearce
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“On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.”
Rodney Dangerfield
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“You can do no great things; only small things with great love.”
Mother Teresa
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Det finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder.
(There is no bad weather, only bad clothing)
~Swedish saying
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“All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.”
Lily Tomlin
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“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
Dr. Seuss
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“If you are going through hell, keep going”
Winston Churchill
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“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.”
Moliere
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“Be grateful for luck.
Pay the thunder no mind.
Listen to the birds and
Don’t hate nobody.”
Eubie Black
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“It’s never too late to be
what you might have been.”
George Eliot
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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to
be continually fearing that you will make one.”
Elbert Hubbard
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“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking
for the experience of being alive.”
Joseph Campbell
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“If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.”
― Dr. Seuss
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“The time comes when the pain to remain
a caterpillar is greater than the metamorphosis
it takes to become a butterfly.”
AlexSandra L. Lett
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“Whatever your age, your upbringing,
or your education, what you are made
of is mostly unused potential.”
George Leonard
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“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.”
-Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood
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“If you find that someone is holding you back
from achieving those things you believe you
want, think again. Could it be that they are
merely the outer edge of your aspirations and
that, on another level entirely, you seek
fulfillment of a different kind?”
Sally Brompton
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“We think too much and feel too little.”
Charlie Chaplin
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“Here’s to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girl and an honest one. A cold pint and another one!”
Irish saying
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“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us all.”
~Voltaire
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“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”
~Toni Morrison, Beloved
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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
-George Orwell, 1984
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“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
~Dr. Seuss
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“Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.”
Mayla Kabat Zinn
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“These are the best days of your life.”
Chinese saying
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“Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.”
Joseph Campbell
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“What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?“
~Pablo Neruda
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“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
Sean O’Casey
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“Keep in mind always the present you are
constructing; it should be the future you want.”
Alice Walker
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“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes
on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day,
listening to the murmur of water, or
watching the clouds float across the sky,
is by no means a waste of time.”
J. Lubbock
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“You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your father was.”
-Irish saying
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“The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
Socrates
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“A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.”
~Welsh Proverb
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“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
~Seneca
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“A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
Dr. Seuss
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