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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

“There was a time when a new deputy tried to teach Mr. Fruit about the difference between a red and a green light, but Mr. Fruit had resisted all efforts to reorder what he had been doing perfectly well for many years. He had not only monitored the comings and goings of the town, his presence softened the ingrained evil that flourished along the invisible margins of the town’s consciousness. Any community can be judged in its humanity or corruption by how it manages to accommodate the Mr. Fruits of the world. Colleton simply adjusted itself to Mr. Fruit’s harmonies and ordinations. He did whatever he felt was needed and he did it with style. “That’s the Southern way” my grandmother said. “That’s the nice way.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“The earth has its music for those who will listen”
― Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed...
This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.”
― Wilde, Oscar

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor