“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
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“Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.”
Alan Cox
“It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.”
Thomas A. Edison
“What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.”
Pablo Picasso
“A poor craftsman blames his tools.”
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Pablo Picasso
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
Bertrand Russell
“We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.”
Charles Stanley
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
Samuel Butler
“If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.”
Lev Grossman
“A man growing old becomes a child again.”
Sophocles
“The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.”
Deepak Chopra
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Good education is not what fills your head with facts but what stimulates curiosity. You then learn for the rest of your life.”
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Pablo Picasso
“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”
Frank Zappa
“Children are the anchors of a mother's life.”
Sophocles
“My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.”
Taylor Swift
“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”
Mark Twain
“Peace is its own reward.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
Aldous Huxley
“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”
Vincent Van Gogh