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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
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Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.: Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan, 2009
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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.: Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.: Francoise Sagan (1935 - )
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
Would not the world be better off if we contented ourselves with the small miracles of life?: Heather Fawcett, Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter, 2026
You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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You're never too old to become younger.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.: Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
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Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.: Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-14-2005
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'God and the Bible,' 1875
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What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), Against Interpretation, 1966
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Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)