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"It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Elliot
"Artistic temperament...sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling." Madeleine L'Engle
"Reading is a joy, but not an unalloyed joy. Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting." Harry Golden
"We'll spend the night together, wake up and live forever." Jamiroquai
"Live dangerously, walk me to class." Foxfire
"Would someone get this big walking carpet out of my way." Star Wars
"I'm losing my religion." R.E.M.
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves." Thomas A. Edison
"What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." Crowfoot
"I am the proverbial tree falling in the uninhabited forest." Lestat
"Today is whatever I want it to be." Beth Orton
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss
"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous." Shana Alexander
"Dreams are answers we haven't yet learned how to ask." The X-Files
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rant with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters." Abigail Van Buren
"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind." Buddha
"The mystery is the method of proceeding from ignorance to understanding." Francis Bitter
"Listen, you son of a bitch, life isn't all a goddamn football game! You won't always get the girl! Life is rejection and pain and loss." Frederick Exley
"I disagree with what you say but I shall defend to my death your right to say it." Voltaire
"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon." Robert Cormier
"Every day is my best day; this is my life; I'm not going to have this moment again." Bernie Siegel
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world...as in being able to remake ourselves." Mahatma Gandhi
"Beauty and Grace command the world." Park Benjamin
"If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live." John F. Kennedy
"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive." Elbert Hubbard
"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant." Salvador Dali
"I don't care what you write about me as long as it isn't true." Katharine Hepburn
"When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." Helen Keller
"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul." Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
"Life can't pass us by. We are life." Rita Mae Brown
"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things." Robert Louis Stevenson
"Don't be humble. You're not that great." Golda Meir
"Don't worry that your problems may be too big to handle. I can assure you that mine are still bigger." Albert Einstein
"He who bends to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise."
William Blake
"When I first come to a place I notice all the little details...they way the sky looks, the color of white paper, the way people walk, doorknobs, everything! Then I get used to a place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is." True Stories
"Suppose I'm not so cute when I grow up as I am now?" Shirley Temple