February 2012
15 posts
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“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a...”
– Leonard Cohen
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“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common...”
– Gertrude Stein
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“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing...”
– Rumi
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“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not...”
– Emily Dickinson
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“Of all the liars in the world sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
– Rudyard Kipling
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“There is no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.”
– Will Smith
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“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”
– Charles Dickens. Happy birthday, Chuck D.
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“I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the...”
– Langston Hughes
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“None but ourselves can free our minds.”
– Bob Marley. Happy birthday, Mr. Marley.
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“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that...”
– Lorraine Hansberry
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“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Jung
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“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when...”
– Henry Miller
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“Pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t...”
– Maya Angelou
January 2012
10 posts
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“Look around you…Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and...”
– Nancy Farmer
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“The future is always beginning now.”
– Mark Strand
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“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or...”
– Susan Sontag
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“Hearing this news that an adult could be a painter—an explosion went off...”
– David Lynch
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“The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.”
– Twyla Tharp
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“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
– Coco Chanel
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“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the...”
– Alan Alda
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“Be yourself. The world worships an original.”
– Ingrid Bergman
December 2011
10 posts
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“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the...”
– Andrew Wyeth
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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
– Plato
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without...”
– Aristotle
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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to...”
– John Lennon
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“Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help...”
– Marian Wright Edelman
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“The usual, indeed, the clichéd way of describing empathy as ‘putting yourself in...”
– Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
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“What fresh hell is this?”
– Dorothy Parker
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“Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only...”
– Molly Ivins
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“When in doubt, look intelligent.”
– Garrison Keillor
November 2011
13 posts
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“If they give you lined paper, write the other way.”
– William Carlos Williams
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“I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”
– Samuel Beckett
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“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”
– Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French
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“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
– Robin Williams
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“Things are only impossible until they’re not.”
– Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
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“Music washes away the dust of every-day life.”
– Art Blakey
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“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.”
– Victor Hugo
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“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high-school class...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to...”
– Abraham Maslo
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
– Thomas Merton
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“Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people.”
– Smokin’ Joe Frazier, boxer
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to...”
– Marie Curie. Happy birthday, Ms. Curie.
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“Begin at the beginning … and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
– Lewis Carroll, Adventures in Wonderland
October 2011
13 posts
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“Life becomes a spectacle and, if you happen to be an artist, you record the...”
– Henry Miller
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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my...”
– Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name