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“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
― Henri Matisse

“some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”
― Sue Monk Kidd

“After you get stung, you can't get unstung
no matter how much you whine about it.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“He never fell,
never slipped back,
never flew.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.”
― Georgia O'Keefe

“My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.”
― Georgia O'Keefe

“What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.”
― Marc Chagall

“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

“They can because they think they can.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Thoughts are divine.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“Art is either revolution or plagiarism”
― Paul Gauguin

“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
― Paul Klee