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Ernest Hemingway-

“You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completelypalpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.”

Kahlil Gibran-

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

Rumi-

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want; Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep. 

Mahatma Ghandi-

“The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.”

(there you go Jef)

Victor Hugo-

“Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes”

William Gibson-

"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

Elie Wiesel

For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.

Benjamin Disraeli

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.   

Henry David Thoreau 

"It's not at what one looks at that matters,"It's what one sees."

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

 Carl Sagan

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

Michelangelo

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

Sir Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." 

Mahatma Ghandi

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong."

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."

Leonard Bernstein

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright infinite future."

Barack Obama

" Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."

Bette Davis

"The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this he is dead."

Oscar Wilde

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

Jack Kerouac

"Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream."

D.J. Sallinger

"You are unrepeatable. There is a magic about you that is all your own..."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind U and what lies before U are small compared to what lies within U."

Eugene Kennedy

"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I know that I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."

Anais Nin

"Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage."

T.S. Elliot

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go..."

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

"When love is not madness, it is not love." 

Mohandas Ghandi

"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Arthur Miller

"You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return."

Unknown

"We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails."

Lewis Carroll

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

Paul Cezanne

"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art." 

Constantin Brancusi

"To see far is one thing, going there is another."

Salvador Dali

"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it."

Denis Waitley

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

Unknown

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."

Elie Wiesel

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

Johann Wolfgang von Geothe

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

Victor Hugo

"Inspiration and genius--one and the same."

Ayn Rand

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.” 

Chinese Proverb

"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

M Scott Peck

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."

Ursula Le Guin

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

Leo Rosten

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."

Albert Schweitzer

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

Henry Miller

“Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”

Oscar Wilde

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings awarmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

Fred Shero

“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.”

Jacques Barzun

"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real."

Elbert Hubbard

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Guy de Maupassant

Thomas Moore

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.

John Milton

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth 
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

C.S Lewis