This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

—Gordon Atkinson

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Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.

—Gordon Atkinson

One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

—Gordon Atkinson

External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or even incompetence.

—Gordon Atkinson

The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity.

—Gordon Atkinson

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

—Gordon Atkinson

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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

—Henri Matisse

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Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You

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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

—Walter Scott

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For love is immortality.

—Emily Dickinson

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Some animals, like some men, leave a trail of glory behind them. They give their spirit to the place where they have lived, and remain forever a part of the rocks and streams and the wind and sky.

—Marguerite Henry

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