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#1

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

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#2

“I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say any other way- things I had no words for.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe

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#3

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe

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#4

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: dying, legacy

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#5

“I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You may think that you should listen, should strain to make out its whispers, should bend over backward, stoop down low to hear its voice breathed up from the ground, from the dead places. You may think there’s something in it for you, something to understand or make sense of.
But I know the truth: I know from the nights of Coldness. I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It’s hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do—the only thing— is run.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

tags: backward, broken, coldness, dead-places, good, inner-voice, intuition, listen, past, run, secret, stone, truth, voice, whispers

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#6

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: humility, self-improvement

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#7

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: god, pain

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#8

“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
― Saint Augustine

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#9

“The most radical act anyone can commit is to be happy.”
― Patch Adams

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#10

“Death is not the enemy sir, Indifference is!
You treat a disease, you win, you lose.
You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome. Is this interesting?”
― Patch Adams, Patch Adams

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#11

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: creation, creative, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, worry

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#12

“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.

[Remarks at the Dinner for the America's Cup Crews, September 14 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: boats, nature, ocean, sailing, science, sea

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#13

“We only have what we give.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: charity, compassion, helping-others

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#14

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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#15

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.”
― Doug Larson

tags: listening, wisdom

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#16

“If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.”
― Louis L’Amour

tags: writing

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#17

“Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: adversity, life, opportunity, trials

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#18

“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
― Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President

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#19

“Don't trust to those who promise to make you rich in a day. Usually they are either mad or rogues!”
― Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet

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#20

“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#21

“Be nice to yourself... It's hard to be happy when someone is mean to you all the time.”
― Christine Arylo

tags: be-kind-to-yourself, self-compassion, self-esteem, self-esteem-quotes, self-love

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#22

“If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

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#23

“All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind. We are not the things we accumulate. We are not the things we deem important. We are story. All of us. What comes to matter then is the creation of the best possible story we can while we’re here; you, me, us, together. When we can do that and we take the time to share those stories with each other, we get bigger inside, we see each other, we recognize our kinship – we change the world, one story at a time…”
― Richard Wagamese

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#24

“Your body of work is everything you create, contribute, affect, and impact. For individuals, it is the personal legacy you leave at the end of your life, including all the tangible and intangible things you have created. Individuals who structure their careers around autonomy, mastery, and purpose will have a powerful body of work.”
― Pamela Slim, Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together

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#25

“...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.”
― Susan Cain

tags: boredom, inner-life, introversion, loneliness, strengths

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#26

“Part of the art of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places"
Henry Miller

As you put yourself and your work out there, you will run into your fellow knuckleballers. These are your real peers-the people who share your obsessions, the people who share a similar mission to your own, the people with whom you share a mutual respect. There will only be a handful or so of them, but they're so, so important. Do what you can to nurture your relationships with these people. Show them work before you show anybody else. Keep them as close as you can.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

tags: knuckleballers

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#27

“Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can't make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
It is not enough to just say relationships are important; we must prove it by investing time in them. Words alone are worthless. "My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action." Relationships take time and effort, and the best way to spell love is "T-I-M-E.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

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#28

“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

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#29

“When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future".”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

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#30

“The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.”
― Tom Peterson

tags: design

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