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"do it or don't do it but get on with it..."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti (Beginnings of Learning)

tags: spiritual
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"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

tags: inspirational
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"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. "
— Martha Graham

tags: art, creativity, dance, dancing, expression
63 people liked it

"After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. "
— David Sedaris

tags: art, conceptual, crystal-meth, drugs
44 people liked it

"life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one"
— Stella Adler

tags: art, creativity
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"I coveted you." His smile darkened. "I had no right to want you- but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire." He shook his head in mock horror."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

tags: funny
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"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

tags: coincidence, god, religion
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"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: inspirational
78 people liked it

"First find out what your hero wants. Then just follow him."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: hero
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"Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: writing
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"Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: common, life, sense
51 people liked it

"Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?!"
— Marisha Pessl

tags: art, humor
4 people liked it

"Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard."
— Kate Atkinson

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"The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories."
— Kate Atkinson (Human Croquet: A Novel)

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"Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person."
— Kate Atkinson (When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel)

tags: life
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"I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find."
— Kate Atkinson (Emotionally Weird)

2 people liked it

"Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

tags: crisis, life
84 people liked it

"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

tags: art, artists
47 people liked it

"Man is what he believes."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

tags: belief
13 people liked it

"The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

6 people liked it

"Even in Siberia there is happiness."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

tags: happiness, siberia
7 people liked it

"Love, respect, friendship, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

tags: hatered, unite
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"She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on."
— Kate Atkinson (Case Histories: A Novel)

tags: books, life
22 people liked it

"Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell."
— Kate Atkinson (Emotionally Weird)

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"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
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"I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything."
— Bill Bryson

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"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
— George Eliot

tags: autumn
22 people liked it

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
— George Eliot

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"Life seems to on without effort when I am filled with music."
— George Eliot (The Mill on the Floss)

tags: life, music
11 people liked it

"It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much."
— George Eliot

tags: forgiveness
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"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses."
— George Eliot

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"It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted."
— George Eliot (Middlemarch)

tags: music, poetry
42 people liked it

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
— George Eliot

tags: silence, widsom
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"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words."
— George Eliot

tags: friendship
27 people liked it

"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them."
— George Eliot

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"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
— George Eliot

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"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
— John Steinbeck

tags: writing
213 people liked it

"Life experiences are like quarters, you lose both when you're sitting around on the couch."
— Jamba Juice Cup

tags: funny, random
81 people liked it

"I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character."
— Jon Stewart

tags: funny
76 people liked it

"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali."
— Salvador Dali

tags: art, humor, inpirational
34 people liked it

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