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A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

—Marge Piercy

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Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

—Robert Service

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One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

—Henry Miller

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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

—M. Scott Peck

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If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you%uFFFDre better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don%uFFFDt feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation.

—Hugh Macleod

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Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

—Carlos Castaneda

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The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

—Lady Bird Johnson

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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

—John Adams

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.

—Samuel Beckett

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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

—Sir William Osler

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Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.

—Christina Petrowsky

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