"Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

Fear no more the frown o' the great;
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke:
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.

Fear no more the lightning-flash,
Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan;
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.

No exorciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
And renownéd be thy grave!"
— William Shakespeare (Cymbeline)

"Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen."
— John le Carré

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden)

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?"
— Henry David Thoreau

"...be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."
— Henry David Thoreau

"As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Be it life or death, we crave only reality."
— Henry David Thoreau

"The noblest art is that of making others happy"
— P.T. Barnum

"Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public."
— P.T. Barnum

"I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had."
— David Lynch

"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"
— Vincent Van Gogh

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
— Vincent Van Gogh

"But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"The only time i feel alive is when I'm painting."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague."
— Vincent Van Gogh

""I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby.""
— - Vincent Van Gogh

"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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— Vincent Van Gogh

"I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
— Leo Tolstoy

"…rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness…"
— Leo Tolstoy

"I'm not a developer; I am."
— Pablo Picasso

"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
— Picasso

"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."
— Pablo Picasso

"The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is. "
— Pablo Picasso

"My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso."
— Pablo Picasso

"We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
"
— Pablo Picasso

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."
— Pablo Picasso

"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. "
— Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972)

"Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can."
— Vince Lombardi

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."
— Vince Lombardi

"In great attemps it is glorious even to fail"
— Vince Lombardi

""The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor." "
— Vince Lombardi

"The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there."
— Vince Lombardi

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
— John F. Kennedy

"All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."
— John F. Kennedy

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. "
— John F. Kennedy

"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

"It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly"
— Al Pacino