“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
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“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”
― The Uglies Trilogy
― The Uglies Trilogy
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.”
― Story People
― Story People
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