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The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

-- Pablo Picasso

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Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

-- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) American Writer

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The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.

-- Socrates (469-399 BC) Greek Philosopher

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Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) Russian Novelist

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We have worked at full speed since May. And that is I'm persuaded the root and source and origin of all health and happiness, provided of course that one rides work as a man rides a great horse, in a spirited and independent way; not a drudge, but a man with spurs to his heels. (Writing in her journal about her life as a publisher and writer.)

-- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) English Writer

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The world is good-natured to people who are good natured.

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

-- Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957)

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What one can be, one must be.

-- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) American Psychologist

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Being with someone who does not treat you well, who is hyper-critical of you, and who makes you feel bad about yourself is unacceptable. -- Bruce A. Grossman J.D., Employment Law Professor

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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

-- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

-- Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) English Novelist

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What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

-- Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher