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    Henri Matisse
    “Creativity takes courage. ”
    ― Henri Matisse
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    Henri Matisse
    “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
    ― Henri Matisse
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    Henri Matisse
    “I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.”
    ― Henri Matisse
    tags: gift, gratefulness, healing, illness, joy, operation, suffering, surgery
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    Henri Matisse
    “We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.”
    ― Henri Matisse
    tags: self
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    Henri Matisse
    “Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.”
    ― Henri Matisse
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    Henri Matisse
    “...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.”
    ― Henri Matisse
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    Henri Matisse
    “To arrive is to be in prison.”
    ― Henri Matisse
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    Henri Matisse
    “From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.”
    ― Henri Matisse
    tags: art, artist, fauvism, inspirational, life
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    Henri Matisse
    “I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.”
    ― Henri Matisse
    tags: buddhist, god, prayer
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    Franz Liszt
    “For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life.”
    ― Franz Liszt
    tags: music, performance, virtuoso
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    Franz Liszt
    “A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.”
    ― Franz Liszt
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: frienship, success
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abraham-lincoln, religion
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: perseverance, progress, thoughtful
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: emnity, understanding-others
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: desperation, misattributed, tenacity
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
    succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: honesty, honor, integrity, moral-courage, obligation, truth
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, perseverance, success
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: advice, future, life, self-determination
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: planning, preparation
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: incrementalism
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: enterprise, leisure
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: 1862, bereavement, grieving, inspirational, letter-to-fanny-mccullough, mourning, sorrow
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: entitlement, inherited-wealth
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: entitlement, self-reliance
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  • #27
    Abraham Lincoln
    “You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: faith, self-worth, serenity
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: friendship
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Letters
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