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Some of these I need right now; others I just find cute.

“Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.”

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” —Albert Einstein

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.” —Elbert Hubbard

“Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up, depends on us.” —L. Thomas Holdcroft

“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.” —Anna Quindlen

“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” —C.S. Lewis.

“The problem with reality is the lack of background music” —Jim Carey

“You can lead a boy to college but you can’t make him think.” —Elbert Hubbard

“If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.” —Bulgarian Proverb

“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.” —Frank Clark

“Contrary to popular belief, if you stop drinking, doing drugs, and eating junk food, you don’t live any longer - it just feels like you do.”

“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.” —James Lalropui Keivom

“Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.” —Minor White

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” —Albert Einstein

“Love is not blind—it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” —Rabbi J. Gordon

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet…And some people sing and dance.” —Roger Miller

“Books to the ceiling, books to the sky.
My piles of books are a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
—Arnold Lobel

“We don’t see things how they are, we see things how we are.” —Anais Nin

“It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to the fool you are.” —T.S. Eliot

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” —M. Scott Peck

“The world will be a better place when schools have the money they need and the air force has to do a bake sale to buy a new bomber.”

“You can’t love parts of people. You have to love the whole package. Warts and all.” —Life is Wild

“You know what? You’re an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it’s gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.” —Rosie O’Donnell as Ole Golly in Harriet the Spy

“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.” —Denis Diderot

“To do all the talking and not be willing to listen is a form of greed.” —Democritus

“Life doesn’t turn out as we expect it to. When we come out into the world, our future seems as smooth and unmarred as virgin snow. It is an illusion, of course, and soon we weave a web of mistakes and failures as much as achievements and triumphs, and become used to walking on broken pavements rather than on paths of gold. It is what makes life so interesting, one quickly learns that one never knows what is going to happen next.”

“We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work - a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended.” —Francois Mauriac