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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - May 13, 2012

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects, bk. 11:11
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.: Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness
I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.: Brooke McEldowney, Pibgorn commentary, 03-31-05
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

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