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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

—Luis Barragan

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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

—Andrew Wyeth

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A great artist is a great man in a great child.

—Victor Hugo

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

—William Lyon Phelps

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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

—Mortimer Adler

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

—Ovid

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Sometimes things don't work out and the reason has nothing to do with you, or how good you are.

—H.M. Ward in The Wedding Contract

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It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.

—Sarah Dessen in Keeping the Moon

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I believe that fate pushes in the direction we're supposed to go, but we have to choose how to go there. We get to choose the path that leads us to our fate.

—Krista Lakes in Barefoot Kisses

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The truth is, I wished for the same thing I always do, when I let myself wish at all. Him.

—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney

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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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Guns don't kill people. People who say "Guns don't kill people" kill people. With guns.

—Rob Delaney

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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

—Sam Brown

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