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We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams...
--Arthur O'Shaughnessy

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
--Robert H. Goddard

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
--Unknown

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.
--Italian Proverb

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
--Henry David Thoreau

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
--Mahatma Gandhi

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
--Clive James

A room without a book is like a body without a soul.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
--Gerry Spence

I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.
--Anne Lamott

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
--Sigmund Freud

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back.There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
--Elie Wiesel

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
--Unknown

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
--Frank A. Clark

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey.
--Charles Millhuff

Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world.
--Brenda Peterson

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

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
--Douglas Everett

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Ah... Paris... the city of romance