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“There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
― Edith Wharton

“I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.”
― Henry Ford

“
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative.”
― Charles mingus

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
― Epicurus

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”
― Josh Billings

“When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
― Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play

“Highly creative people don't necessarily excel in raw brainpower. They are misfits on some level. They tend to question accepted views and to consider contradictory ones.”
― G. Pascal Zachary

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World