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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - July 1, 2026
One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.
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Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher.com weblog, September 9, 2003  
It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosty, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience.
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Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006  
Every artist was first an amateur.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876  
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)  

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