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  Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Happiness, Smile

  Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

  Jean Paul

  Forgiveness, Humanity, Forgiving

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

  Benjamin Britten

  Music, Musical Life, Inspirational Music

  Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber

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• This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

  Prem Rawat

  Media, Meditation, Trying

  Speech at Denver, Colorado, February 19, 1977.

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• I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

  Victoria Principal

  Inspirational, Believe, Health

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

  Henry Melvill

  Life, Sympathy, Running

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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, from a spider's web.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Art, Sky

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting--on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Military, Mean, Eye

  "Fictional character: Raoul Duke". "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", 1998.

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• Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

  Irving Stone

  Life, Art, Work

  Irving Stone (1987). “The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo”, Signet

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• Silence is the mother of truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Mother, Imagination

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.182

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• It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

  Bill Watterson

  Life, Success, Fear

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• If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Music, Equality, Play

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• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Scott Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

  Redd Foxx

  Beauty, Words Of Wisdom, Skins

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• The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

  John Cage

  Beauty, Reality, Thinking

  "Happy Birthday, John Cage! Celebrate What Would Be The Composer’s 101st With His Little-Seen Visual Art" by Kate Abbey-Lambertz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.

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• Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Beauty, Creativity

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• We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Faith, Writing

  Kurt Vonnegut (2016). “If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By”, p.131, RosettaBooks

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• That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

  John Berger

  Nature, Believe, Sadness

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.569, Vintage

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• Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

  Rumi

  Life, Faith, Wisdom

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.473, Delphi Classics

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• We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspirational, Life, Bad Ass

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• The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

  Cyril Connolly

  Life, Art, Bad Ass

  "The Unquiet Grave" by Cyril Connolly, (Part 2), 1951.

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• Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

  Joseph Addison

  Beauty, Eye, Lovers

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1765). “Rosamond. Cato. The drummer, or The haunted house. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-Examiner. The lover”, p.80

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• What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

  M. C. Escher

  Life, Artist, Giving

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