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The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.
Way Excuse Rude Behavior
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There is nothing like a good friend to help you out when you are not in trouble.

Nothing Good friend Help Trouble
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everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

Everyone Old Secret Entitled
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Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

Mistake Comment Social grace
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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Whispered Heart Kissed Soul
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The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
Treasures Invisible Heart
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Brave Human Laws Natural
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Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Science Mistakes Lead Truth
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It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure

Better Destination Wish Departure
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If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved

Instant Perish Saved
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Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed.

Music Tasted Swallowed
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Masters Necessity Teaches Best
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

War Destroy Peace Man
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

Misfortune Friends Solitude Reason
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

Wisest Worst Beginning Surprise
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite

Existence Love Emotion Living
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we see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

Science Perfectible Theory Fresh
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

Presence Nature's Man Powerless
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

Solitude Isolation Painful Human endurance
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One friend is always sacrificed to the other in friendship.

Friend Sacrificed Friendship
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Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares.

Death Beginning Eternal Earthly cares
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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

Creativity Faith Control
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Serious art is born from serious play.

Serious Art Born Play
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Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

Art Progress Cherished
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The reward for attention is always healing.

Reward Attention Healing
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The myth that we must have “time”—more time—in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have.

Myth Time Create
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The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.

Trick Write Time Love
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All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

Audacity Talent Artist Center stage
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Mystery Heart Creativity Surprise
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Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
Anger Meant Acted upon
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You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.

Work Spiritual Fact God
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Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

Writing Breathing Learn Point
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No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

Life Art Dream Creativity
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Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.

Art Thinking Opposite
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Judging Efforts Artist Abuse
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We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

Idea Need Mood Write
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Fame will come to some. Honor will visit all who work.

Fame Honor Visit Work
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There is the risk you cannot afford to take,and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

Risk Afford Take
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God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

God Handle Overestimate Underestmate
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The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

Voice Original Strangled People's
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Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.

Tenacity Talent Rules Day
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Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

Procastination Laziness Fear Forgive
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The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

Artist Produce Work Art
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Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention

Survival Sanity Delight Gift
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Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

Artist Visionaries Faith Creative goal
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The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

Heart Creativity Experience Union
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We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.

Unexamined Life Worth Living
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Things Difficult Dare
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Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

Writing Act Listening Ego
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I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.

Realized Fame Moment Life
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