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If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?

—Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl

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How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

—John Green

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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...

—Pablo Picasso

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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

—Edith Sitwell

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

—Norman Mailer

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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

—Rene Descartes

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Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.

—Stephanie Barron

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It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

—Carolyn Heilbrun

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Give all to love; obey thy heart.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

—Madeleine L'Engle

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Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

—Peter McWilliams

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Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit.

—Senator Dianne Feinstein

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I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

—Beverly Sills

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Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

—Albert Schweitzer

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