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Thoughts...things read...on art, wisdom, life, relationships...

Other Thoughts & Quotes Volumes: Vol.2 Vol.3

Art: what is it, what motivates artists...

No one in history has sufficiently defined art...

However, we all are mysteriously drawn to great art and our lives are enriched by it...

"To envoke in oneself a feeling one has experienced, and having evoked it....., then by
means of movement, line, color, sounds or forms expressed in words, so transmit that
same feeling---this is the activity of art."
~ Leo Tolstoy

What is ART?

Art does not tolerate reason.
~ Albert Camus ~

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated in quotations."
~ Benjamin Disraeli

"Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.
The love may be sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful or thrilling,
but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life."
~ Eric Maisel ~

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
~ Robert Frost ~

"Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart
and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you."
~ Judith Jamison ~

"Form is as mysterious as life itself.
The artist is the man who reveals the mystery of form."
~ Sir Herbert Read ~

"There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you can not explain."
~ Berthold Brecht ~

"What is Passion? It is surely the becoming of a person."
~ John Boorman ~

"By the side of religion, by the side of science, by the side of poetry,
Stands Natural Beauty. Not as a rival to these,
but as the common inspirer and nourisher of them all."
~ G. M. Trevelyan ~

"Art... is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual
outside of all the rules and all the demands of society."
~ Emile Zola ~

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
~ W. Somerset Maugham ~

"Repose is a quality too many undervalue... In the clamor one is irresistibly
drawn to the woman who sits gracefully relaxed, who keeps her hands still,
talks in a low voice and listens with responsive eyes and smiles. She creates
a spell around her, charming to the ear, the eye and the mind."
~ Anonymous ~

"A great work of art is like a dream;
for all its apparent obviousness it does not explain itself..."
~ Carl Gustav Jung ~

"Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart
and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you."
~ Judith Jamison ~

"Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature."
~ Susanne K. Langer ~

"All of us have unique talents and gifts. No obstacle, be it physical, mental or
emotional, has the power to destroy our innate creative energies."
~ Liane Cordes ~

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart."
~ Helen Keller ~

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their
exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts."
~ William Shakespeare ~

"You see things and you say Why?
But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?"
~ George Bernard Shaw ~

"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the
greatest is the possession of friendship."
~ Epicurus ~

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
~ Albert Einstein ~

1. Do more than exist, live.
2. Do more than touch, feel.
3. Do more than look, observe.
4. Do more than read, absorb.
5. Do more than hear, listen.
6. Do more than listen, understand.
7. Do more than think, ponder.
8. Do more than talk, say something.
~ John H. Rhoades ~

"No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share,
celebrate, and love is now."
~ Dr. Leo Buscaglia ~

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung
and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your
heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little
luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it
will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least
to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly
safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."
~ C.S. Lewis ~

"’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Him that I love, I wish to be free - even from me."
~ Morrow Lindbergh

"Let love be your greatest aim."
~ 1 Corinthians 14:1 ~

"If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only."
~ Elizabeth Barret Browning ~

"Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love 'til you give it away."
~ Oscar and Hammerstein, "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" from the Sound of Music

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."
~ Victor Hugo ~

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's
cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it.. It really is worth
fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you
don't risk everything, you risk even more."
~ Erica Jong ~

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

"Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety."
~ Reni Daumal ~

"When you remove all vain effort, and are in harmony with the Universe, then, and
only then, you'll be ready to interpret it."
~ Unknown

"One day everything will be well, that is our hope.
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion."
~ Voltaie ~

"I imagine, therefore I belong and am free."
~ Lawrence Durrell

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the
truth of imagination."
~ John Keats ~

"Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour."
~ Ovid ~

"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more
potent than love?"
~ Igor Stravinsky ~

"The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive,
a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person."
~ Frank Barron ~

"When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger
for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself
experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him
ot, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the
same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and
wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness;
and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger."
~ Mother Teresa ~

"Is not this the true romantic feeling--not to desire to escape life, but to
prevent life from escaping you?"
~ Thomas Wolfe ~

"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul."
~ Langston Hughes ~

JOHN SINGER SARGENT said when asked about his art:
"You see it this way and I see it that way and that's all there is to it."
~ John Singer Sargent ~

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."
~ Frank Leahy ~

"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your
camera between the skin of a person and his shirt."
~ Henri Cartier Bresson. ~

"Work like you don't need the money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching."
~ Unknown ~

"If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred."
~ Walt Whitman ~

"I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous
are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well."
~ PS 139:14 ~

The four loves in Greek
Agape - spiritual love as between God and man
Storge - familial love, the love for a spouse or family member
Philia - the love between friends
Eros - sexual love

"Do not compare yourself with others, for you are a unique and wonderful creation."
~ Barbara Kimball ~

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi ~

"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking
something different."
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi ~

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
~ Lawrence Durrell ~

"Yesterday is a memory - tomorrow is a vision. Let neither slip away."
~ Unknown ~

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is
the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence
to be able to touch souls."
~ Mother Teresa ~

"In solitude, where we are least alone."
~ Lord Byron ~

"What I want is that my art should evoke nothing but emotion."
~ Pablo Picasso ~

"How long till our souls get it right?
Has any human being ever reached the highest light?"
~ Indigo Girls ~

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
~ Robert Frost ~

"Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart
and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you."
~ Judith Jamison ~

"The nude is exquisite, the most beautiful thing in all the world."
~ Robert Henri ~

"What is Passion? It is surely the becoming of a person."
~ John Boorman ~

"Form is as mysterious as life itself.
The artist is the man who reveals the mystery of form."
~ Sir Herbert Read ~

"I shut my eyes in order to see."
~ Paul Gaugin ~

"I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness.
I haven't the skill. No one has."
~ Georges Barque ~

"Women have the special gift of making life bearable."
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir ~

"It is good to be needed in this life but it is much better to be wanted."
~ Unknown ~

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair."
~ Kahlil Gibran ~

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."
~ William Blake ~

"And in the end my dear sweet friend, I'll remember you."
~ Bob Dylan ~

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
~ John Keats ~

"The less something has to say, the more perfect it is."
~ Andy Warhol ~

"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that
people are really good at heart."
~ Anne Frank ~

"Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.
~ John Donne ~

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
~ Albert Einstein ~

"Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?"
~ Richard Bach (from There''s No Such Place as Far Away)

"When we move beyond our fear, we become free."

"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth."
~ John Keats ~

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me;
I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
~ Albert Camus ~

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are
permitted to remain children all our lives."
~ Albert Einstein ~

"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold
intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare."
~ Anonymous ~

In the future, everyone will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
~ Andy Warhol ~

I don't know anybody who doesn't have a fantasy. Everyone must have a fantasy.
~ Andy Warhol ~

"We are shaped by our thoughts, we become that we think"
~ Buddha ~

"I cannot, and will not, attempt to describe, analyze, or define the
creative-emotional motivations of my work, or the work of others. Description
of the inspiration or the meaning of a work of photography, or of any other
medium of art, lies in the work itself. . . Only the print contains the
artist's meaning and message."
~ Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion
that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing
positive knowledge."
~ Albert Einstein ~

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."
~ William Hazlitt ~

"May you live all the days of your life."
~ Jonathan Swift ~

"Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; 'tis woman's whole existence."
~ Lord Byron ~

"The more you judge, the less you love."
~ Honoré de Balzac ~

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."
~ Woodrow Wyatt ~

"The deeds we do and the words we speak are an honest reflection of
the content of our heart."
~ Unknown ~

"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."
~ David Tyson Gentry ~

"All our souls are written in our eyes"
~ Edmond Rostand ~

"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds
you worthy, directs your course."
~ Kahlil Gibran ~

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a
thousand heads bowing in prayer.
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
~ Galileo Galilei ~

Love in the only rational act.
~ Stephen Levine ~

"For those who laugh, time is short,
For those who weep, time is long,
For those who love, time is not."
~ Anonymous ~

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
~ "Braveheart" ~

"Life is eternal, and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon;
and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."
~ Anonymous ~

"Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you.
If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all."
~ Unknown ~

"Of all the things wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the
greatest is the possession of friendship."
~ Epicurus ~

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."
~ William Butler Yeats ~

"Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed."
~ Cornelia Otis Skinner ~

"You lose it if you talk about it."
~ Hemingway ~

"Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some
foundation for a future request."
~ Sir Arthur Helps ~

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
~ Plato ~

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should
relax and get used to the idea."
~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

"Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."
~ St Francis of Assisi ~

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ~

"The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously.
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic."
~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ~

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not
believe you anyway."
~ Elbert Hubbard ~

"Some people care too much. I think it's called love."
~ Pooh ~

"The gene pool could use a little chlorine."
~ Bumper sticker ~

"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night
And his affections dark as Erebus."
~ Lorenzo (in The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare)

"I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not."
~ Saadi ~

"A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain,
would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch
their friend suffer."
~ Amanda Grier ~

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing
is a miracle. The other is as if everything is."
~ Albert Einstein ~

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much."
~Mother Teresa ~

"The most I can do for my friend is to simply be his friend."
~Henry David Thoreau ~

"Friends are forever,
It's a love that never dies.
True friends are there for always,
Through your smiles and your cries.
A friend will never leave you,
Until the end of time.
It's a love that lasts forever.
But never costs a dime."
~ Anne Kearns ~

Quotes site

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
~ Abraham Lincoln ~

"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how
much they love them while they're still alive."
~ Orlando A. Battista ~

ALBUM: Sounds of Silence
By Simon and Garfunkel

@SONG: The Sound of Silence (P. Simon, 1964)

Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence.

"Fools" said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls."
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.

The Earth as a Village
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people,
with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like the following.
There would be:
57 Asians; 21 Europeans; 14 from the Western Hemisphere; 8 Africans
52 would be female; 48 would be male
70 would be non-white; 30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian; 30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual; 11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's
wealth, and, all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes only 1) would have a collage education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for
acceptance understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
~ By Phillip M. Harter, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine

This too shall pass...
One day Solomon decided to humble Benaiah ben Yehoyada, his most trusted minister. He
said to him, "Benaiah, there is a certain ring that I want you to bring to me. I wish to
wear it for Sukkot which gives you six months to find it."

"If it exists anywhere on earth, your majesty," replied Benaiah, "I will find it and bring
it to you, but what makes the ring so special?"

"It has magic powers," answered the king. "If a happy man looks at it, he becomes sad, and
if a sad man looks at it, he becomes happy." Solomon knew that no such ring existed in the
world, but he wished to give his minister a little taste of humility.

Spring passed and then summer, and still Benaiah had no idea where he could find the ring.
On the night before Sukkot, he decided to take a walk in one of he poorest quarters of
Jerusalem. He passed by a merchant who had begun to set out the day's wares on a shabby
carpet. "Have you by any chance heard of a magic ring that makes the happy wearer forget
his joy and the broken-hearted wearer forget his sorrows?" asked Benaiah.

He watched the grandfather take a plain gold ring from his carpet and engrave something on
it. When Benaiah read the words on the ring, his face broke out in a wide smile.

That night the entire city welcomed in the holiday of Sukkot with great festivity. "Well,
my friend," said Solomon, "have you found what I sent you after?" All the ministers laughed
and Solomon himself smiled.

To everyone's surprise, Benaiah held up a small gold ring and declared, "Here it is, your
majesty!" As soon as Solomon read the inscription, the smile vanished from his face. The
jeweler had written three Hebrew letters on the gold band: _gimel, zayin, yud_, which began
the words "_Gam zeh ya'avor_" -- "This too shall pass."

At that moment Solomon realized that all his wisdom and fabulous wealth and tremendous power
were but fleeting things, for one day he would be nothing but dust.

"Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend,
as you will always find me yours."
~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~

"Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing."
~ Randolph S. Bourne ~

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the
friend who for me does not consult his calendar."
~ Robert Brault ~

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the
good and happiness of one another."
~ Eustace Budgell ~

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
~ Lord Byron ~

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
~ Charles Caleb Colton ~

"A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be
able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence."
~ Sheryl Condie ~

"Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another."
~ George Ebers ~

"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."
~ Fr. Jerome Cummings ~

"Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead.
Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead."
~ Anna Cummins ~

"Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

"I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where
I can find them, but I seldom use them."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

For many more quoted by author and subject go to:
Cyber Nations Quote Site

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been
waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."
~ G. M. Trevelyan ~

The human heart can go the lengths of God.
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no Winter now. The frozen misery
Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;
The thunder is the thunder of the floes,
The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.
Thank God our time is now when wrong
Comes up to face us everywhere,
Never to leave us till we take
The longest stride of soul men ever took.
Affairs are now soul size.
The enterprise
Is exploration into God.
~ Christopher Fry, from A Sleep of Prisoners.

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."
~ Kahlil Gibran ~

"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder."
~ Immermann ~

"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~

"Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it."
~ Caroline Bird ~

"The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety."
~ Felix Mendelssohn ~

"And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance…I hope you dance."
~ Lee Ann Womack ~

"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful."
~ Sappho ~

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old.
For as you were when first your eye I eyed.
Such seems your beauty still."
~ William Shakespeare ~

"Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most."
~ Roy Thompson ~

"It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true."
~ Robert Browning ~

"Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite."
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon ~

"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so
secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?"
~ Virginia Woolf ~

"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion."
~ Lord Byron ~

"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence.
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."
~ Lord Byron ~

"No man is worth a woman's tears, and any man who is, would not make her cry."
~ Rebel Wolfe ~

"The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection."
~ D. H. Lawrence ~

"Thought, I love thought.
But not the jiggling and twisting of already existent ideas
I despise that self-important game.
Thought is the welling up of unknown life into consciousness,
Thought is the testing of statements on the touchstone of the conscience,
Thought is gazing on to the face of life, and reading what can be read,
Thought is pondering over experience, and coming to a conclusion.
Thought is not a trick, or an exercise, or a set of dodges,
Thought is a man in his wholeness wholly attending."
-- More Pansies, Thought

"The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary,
he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see
a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral."
-- Art and Morality

"Life is only bearable when the mind and the body are in harmony, and there is a
natural balance between the two, and each has a natural respect for the other."
-- D. H. Lawrence, "Lady Chatterley's Lover"

"Science is the Tree of Death
Art is the Tree of Life"
-- The Laocoön, William Blake

PostCultural Blues

"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength
which can overcome adversity."
~ Albert Schweitzer

"Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it--to that
end a slight physical antipathy must probably help."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife,
because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out."
~ Bertrand Russell

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in
time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality."
~ Dante

"People spend money when and where they feel good"
~ Walt Disney

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
~ Walt Disney

"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse."
~ Walt Disney

"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."
~ Walt Disney

"I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy."
~ C S Lewis

" I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the
fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done.
If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."
Matthew 21: 21-22

"The great creative individual. . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue
than collective man ever can be."
~ John Stuart Mill

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."
~ John Stuart Mill

"I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers."
~ Jim Morrison

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and
the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."
~ Jim Morrison

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought.
There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour."
~ Victor Hugo

"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for.
Sail out to sea and do new things."
~ Grace Hopper

"If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much easier to
apologize than it is to get permission."
~ Grace Hopper

"Be brave enough to live life creatively.
The creative place where no one else has ever been."
~ Alan Alda

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."
~ Alan Alda

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right"
~ Isaac Asimov

"Beware, the man of one book."
~ St Thomas Aquinas

"Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
~ Shirley Chisolm

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
~ Arthur C Clarke

"Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable
universe is but a faint shadow."
~ William Blake

"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour."
~ William Blake

"You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore . . .
but let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the
heavens dance between you."
~ Kahlil Gibran

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture
every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate
the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet (1749-1832)

The Heart
One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the
most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered and they all admired
his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, they all
agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they had ever seen. The young man was very
proud and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.

Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said, "Why your heart is not
nearly as beautiful as mine."

The crowd and the young man looked at the old man's heart. It was beating strongly, but
full of scars, it had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in, but
they didn't fit quite right and there were several jagged edges. In fact, in some places
there were deep gouges where whole pieces were missing. The people stared - how can he
say his heart is more beautiful, they thought?

The young man looked at the old man's heart and saw its state and laughed. "You must be
joking," he said. "Compare your heart with mine, mine is perfect and yours is a mess of
scars and tears."

"Yes," said the old man, "Yours is perfect looking but I would never trade with you. You
see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love - I tear out a piece of
my heart and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits
into the empty place in my heart, but because the pieces aren't exact, I have some rough
edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we shared. Sometimes I have given
pieces of my heart away, and the other person hasn't returned a piece of his heart to me.
These are the empty gouges - giving love is taking a chance. Although these gouges are
painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people too, and I hope
someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So now do you see what true
beauty is?"

The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks. He walked up to the old
man, reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart, and ripped a piece out. He offered
it to the old man with trembling hands. The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart
and then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young
man's heart. It fit, but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges. The young man looked
at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man's
heart flowed into his. They embraced and walked away side by side.

How sad it must be to go through life with a whole heart.

~~ Received from a special friend...

"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul."
~ Ovid

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - That is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
~ John Keats

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness."
~ John Keats

"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth."
~ John Keats

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."
~ Rudyard Kipling

"I walk to the horizon, and there I find another..."
~ Enya

"To believe in God is impossible, not to believe in Him is absurd."
~ Voltaire

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
~ Voltaire

"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."
~ Voltaire

"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time,
insight into and understanding of many things"
~ Vincent Van Gogh

"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."
~ Vincent Van Gogh

"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
~ Unknown

"Looking back you realize,
That a very special person passed briefly through your life;
And it was you.
It is not too late to find that person again."
~ Robert Brault

"Until you understand who you are and have knowledge of where you came from, you will never
be set free from other people's opinions. Other people's opinions are more powerful then armies."
~ Author Unknown

"It is only impossible, until somebody does it."
~ Author Unknown

"Nothing will ever be accomplished if all obstacles must first be overcome."
~ Author Unknown

"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you.
Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."
~ Rita Mae Brown

"When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom."
~ John Gray

"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
~ Socrates

"He who hath many friends hath none."
~ Aristotle

"A friend to all is a friend to none."
~ English Proverb (18th century). Collected in: Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732).

"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone,
any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."
~ Langston Hughes

"Live like there is no tomorrow,
Love like you've never been hurt,
Dance like no one is watching."
- Anonymous

"The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are.
Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry."
~ Unknown

"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."
~ Marc Chagall

"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."
~ Oscar Wilde ~

"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
~ Virginia Woolf

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
~ W. Edwards Deming

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
~ Nelson Henderson

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
~ Carl W. Buechner

Costa Rica:
January 5th to 12th 2002
Allegro Resort, Papagayo, Guanacaste Providence, Costa Rica
Coco Beach
Don Bosco (65' 2 masts French sailboat) - Golfo Papagayo, Costa Rica
Eco Lodge at Lake Coter - in the rainforest of Lake Arenal
Tabacon - hot springs, Arenal volcano
Liberia
Brit Coffee

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
~ Hubert Humphrey

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
~ W. M. Lewis

"When they discover the center of the universe,
a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."
~ Bernard Bailey

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
~ Confucius

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
~ John Locke

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and
the intelligent are full of doubt."
~ Bertrand Russell

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
~ Albert Einstein

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."
~ Flora Whittemore

"...I am rich because I have found in my work something which I can
devote myself to heart and soul, and which inspires me and gives meaning to my life..."
~ Vincent Van Gogh

"Beauty will save the world."
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The course of true love never did run smooth."
~ Sheakspear, A Midsummer-Night's Dream I.i. 134

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
~ Sheakspear, Richard II V.v. 49

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
~ Plato

"Violence is not strength and compassion is not weakness."
~ King Arthur (in Camelot)

"Reality is merely an illusion, but a very persistent one!"
~ Albert Einstein

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you got."
~ Janis Joplin

"There are some people who look at Barney and wonder, 'where's an asteroid when you need one?'"
~ Jane Pauley (on "Time and Again")

"If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?"
~ Art Hoppe

"I am NOT suffering from insanity... l happen to be enjoying myself!"
~ Anonymous

Annabelle's Quotation Guide

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a
nice man who wishes that she were not."
~ H. L. Mencken

"The duty of an artist is to continually astonish."
~ Oscar Wilde

"We are all guilty of a crime, the great crime of not living life to the full."
~ Henry Miller

"Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind-listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody."
~ Musician Eubie Blake

"Real vision is the ability to see the invisible."
~ Jonathan Swift author of Gulliver's

"The soul never thinks without a picture."
~ Aristotle

"Beauty is the gift of God."
~ Aristotle

"The best way to become boring is to say everything."
~ Voltaire

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace."
~ Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

"Memory is not what the heart desires."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, Gimli in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

"...one must tread the path that need chooses."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

"Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken."
~ Bertrand Russell

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people
to make it worth the effort."
~ Herm Albright

"All life is an experiment"
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."
~ Ovid (43 B.C. - 18 A.D.)

"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to."
~ Vincent Van Gogh

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
~ Charles Buxton

"I have been trained with the dominating thought of art as something almost religious in quality."
~ Ansel Adams

"The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and it's greatest beauty comes from that."
~ Auguste Rodin

"How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case
like a rare, rare fiddle?"
~ Michelangelo

"Life may be a journey, but it is not about the journey.
It is about the relationships in the journey."
~ Unknown

"This is beyond understanding," said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing.
Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"
And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins...."
~ John Steinbeck, King Arthur and Merlin in THE ACTS OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
~ John Morley

"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
~ Michel de Montaigne

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
~ Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
~ Albert Einstein

The Brothers McBrayer

"Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that
nothing remains to be said."
~ Jean Rostand, French biologist, writer

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."
~ Author Frank H. Crane

"Wisdom begins in wonder."
~ Socrates

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
~ Henry Ford

"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is
more important than fear."
~ Ambrose Redmoon

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"...love is how you stay alive..."
~ Morrie Schwartz

"There is no such thing as 'too late' in life."
~ Morrie Schwartz's last message in Mitch Albom's book Tuesday's with Morrie

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
~ Oscar Wilde

Radcliffe's Top 100 Book List - #

"What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress?
Imagine that you are a masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art
taking form with every breath."
~ Thomas Crum

"During conversation much can be learned from what is not said as well as what is said."
~ Anonymous

Cirque Du Soleil: Quidam - the "anonymous passerby" - April 5, 2002

Cruise ... June 1-6, 2002
Monarch of the Seas
Playa del Carmen
Cozumel: Tulum, Mayan Ruins
5000 year calendar: Aug 13, 3114 BC to Dec 22, 2012
Georgetown, Grand Carman - great white sand beach
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"the artist's world is limitless. it can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few
feet away. it is always on his doorstep."
~ Paul Strand

"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"We are tricked by the phenomenon of time; Hours and days pass so slowly but years pass quickly."
~ Sally Warner, author of children's books

"Time is the companion on our journey, reminding us to cherish every moment, for it will never pass again."
~ Jean-Kuc Picard, Captain, Uss Enterprise (Star Trek)

"Try not. Do, or do Not. There is no try."
~ Yoda, "The Empire Strikes Back"

"Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life."
~ Alvin Toffler, author

"For a self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living."
~ from "The Human Art" by Virginia Woolf

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"No knowledge is so easily found as when it is needed."
~ Robert Henri

"Men either get to know what they want, and go after it or some other persons tell them what they
want and drive them after it."
~ "The Art Spirit" by Robert Henri p.213

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it,
change your attitude. Don't complain."
~ Maya Angelou

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
~ Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."
~ David Russell, Classical Guitarist

"There exists no more difficult art than living. Throughout the whole of life,
one must continue to learn to live."
~ Seneca, Roman philosopher

"In this great future, you can't forget your past."
~ Bob Marley, Reggea Musician (1945 - 1981)

"They say the sun shines for all, but in some people's world, it never shine at all."
~ Bob Marley, Reggea Musician (1945 - 1981)

"Sarcasm is the protest of people who are weak."
~ "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
~ Ovid

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice. It is not a
thing to be waited for, it's a thing to be achieved."
~ William Jennings Bryan

"I wanted to stay I wanted to play, I wanted to love you."
~ Dave Matthews, In Music/Dave Mathews Band

"There is no idea so good it can't be ruined by a few well-placed idiots."
~ Scott Adams, "Dilbert" creator

"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one,
you'll become a philosopher... and that is a good thing for any man."
~ Socrates

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
~ Tolstoy

To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was 'A single soul dwelling in two bodies.'
~ Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Greek philosopher.
Quoted in: Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, "Aristotle," bk. 5, sct. 20.

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!' till you can find a rock."
~ Unknown

"For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth;
But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell."
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson, English poet laureate (1809 - 1892)

"I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most -
'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all."
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (pt. XXVII, st. 4)

"Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful."
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson, Lover's Tale (l. 348)

"I loved you, and my love had no return,
And therefore my true love has been my death."
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine (l. 1,298)

"Like glimpses of forgotten dreams."
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Two Voices (381)

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
~ Sir John Lubbock

"My work is my fantasy world. I paint the world I want to be in."
~ Jack Vettriano, artist

"Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important."
~ James Baldwin, US novelist, essayist (1924-1987

"He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies."
~ William Hazlitt, English writer (1778-1830)

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
~ Amy Tan, American novelist (b. 1952)

"He who does not master the nude, cannot understand the principles of architecture"
~ Michelangelo

"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds."
~ Bob Marley, Reggea Musician (1945 - 1981)

"What is a friend? I will tell you
It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself
Your soul can be naked with him
He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are
He does not want you to be better or worse
When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent
You do not have to be on you guard. You can say what you think, so long as it is genuinely you
He understands those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge you
With him you breathe freely.
You can avow your little vanities and envies and hates and vicious sparks, your meannesses and absurdities and,
in opening them up to him, they are lost, dissolved on the white ocean of his loyalty

He understands
You do not have to be careful.
You can abuse him,
neglect him,
tolerate him.
Best of all, you can keep still with him.
It makes no matter
He likes you- he is like fire that purges to the bone

He understands
He understands
You can weep with him, sin with him, laugh with him, pray with him
Through it all - and underneath - he sees, knows and loves you..

"A friend?
What is a friend?
Just one, I repeat, with whom you dare to be yourself."

~ C.Raymond Beran

"The universe if made up of stories, not of atoms."
~ Muriel Rukeyser

"I am a part of all that I have met." 5
~ Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson, English poet laureate (1809 - 1892)

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
~ Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats, Poet

"It matters not what happens to you in life, but rather how you react to what happens."
~ Unknown

"Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken winged bird
that cannot fly."
~ Langston Hughes

"All the Wealth Of The World
Could not buy you a friend
Nor pay you for the loss of one."
~ Anonymous

"Wenn ich dich lieb habe, was geht's dich en?
If I love you, what business is that of yours?"
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet (1749-1832)

"The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, 'What does woman want?'"
~ Sigmund Freud

"Defeat may be victory in disguise;
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
"Life is but an empty dream!"
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem." 2
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life

"Dreams are but lies," says an old maxim; but when our last hour is at
hand, and but a few brief minutes are left to what was "I," pale lights that
are fast growing dim, who can tell by what mark to distinguish you, O
memories of the actual life, from you, O mirages from the dream life."
~ Paul Bourget

"The true artist feels that there is only one art - and that it belongs to all mankind."
~ Romare Bearden

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant or a child in its mother's womb.
~ Jean Arp

"When I look at ugliness, I see beauty.
When I am far from home, I see old friends.
When there is noise, I hear a robin's song instead.
When I am in a crowd, it is the mountain's peace I feel.
In the winter of my sorrow, I remember the summer of my joy.
In the nighttime of my loneliness, I breathe the day of my thanksgiving.
But when the sadness spreads its blanket and that is what I see, I take my eyes
to some high place until I find a reflection of what lies deep inside of me."
~ Navajo saying

"As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the
weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Always avoid violence. If you
succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be
the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the
future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos."
~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "The Most Durable Power", a sermon delivered on
November 6,1956 in Montgomery, Alabama

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed
of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in
your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't
it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart it buried, like
landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations
that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what
you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important you almost cried while you were saying
it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within, not for want of a teller,
but for want of an understanding ear."
~ Stephen King

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."
~ G. Randolph

"There are certain chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment,
before a word is spoken."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"A hundred suspicions don't make a proof."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"Every man's memory is his private literature."
~ Aldous Huxley

"Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone that it
is to tell them you're hurt."
~ Alanis Morisette

"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
~ George Bernard Shaw

"Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to keep
it intact, you must give your heart to no one...avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the
casket of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change.
It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable...The only place outside heaven where
you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love...is hell."
~ C. S. Lewis

"heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves.
In the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself
outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled."
~ -Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
~ Chinese proverb

"Be the one who makes the decisions, not the one that does what is decided for him."

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate
sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible...what wine
is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!"
~ Soren Kierkagaard

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of
the people who don't do anything about it."
~ Albert Einstein

"We all know that art is not truth, it is a lie that helps us realize truth."
~ Pablo Picasso

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