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It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. - Albert Camus

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment. ~ Jim Rohn

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator. – Stephen Hawking

When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. ~Henry David Thoreau

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis

In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
J.R.R. Tolkien

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? – William Butler Yeats

The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.— Socrates

Because I have known despair, I value hope. Because I have
tasted frustration, I value fulfillment. Because I have been lonely, I value love.
Leonard Nimoy

Together my friends, we will ride our ponies into a zombie-powered future. – Vermin Supreme

I was a geek who thought I was cool. I didn't hang out with a particular clique, but with different people from different cliques. I was a total nerd, trying to fit in. Luckily, I found music and that was my niche. That sorta took me out of my geekdom. I was never invited to parties as a teenager - I turned up with the popular people. That's where the lyrics to 'Guilty By Association' came from.

Chester Bennington

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. – Salvador Dali

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.
Prince

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy

I don't do drugs. I am drugs. – Salvador Dali

“I'm nobody I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine And a straight razor...if you get too close to me” ― Charles Manson

Hope begins in the dark. - Ann Lamott

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every day is a gift. But some days are packaged better.”
― Sanhita Baruah

I'm afraid this man will kill me some day. - Nicole Brown Simpson

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
-Oscar Wilde

“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

You're on earth. There's no cure for that. - Samuel Beckett

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. - Albert Camus

Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
― Langston Hughes

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. – Erich Fromm

“If you can’t be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.” John Wayne

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. - Ludwig von Mises

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them. - Margaret Atwood

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda

You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.
James Stewart

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. – Winston Churchill

Time is an illusion.
― Albert Einstein

One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.
Freddie Mercury

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. - Thornton Wilder

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself.
― Albert Einstein

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

Frank Lane

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
― walt whitman

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. - Daniel Dennett

“Friday fills my day with hope & happiness.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
- John Muir

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
― C.S. Lewis