If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.

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Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

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Not failure, just a lesson I had to learn. ˝” ― Andrea Kriksic

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The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. ― Denis Waitley

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Every sketch brings something fresh to learn which makes it exciting.

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. ― Carl G. Jung

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The wisest mind has something yet to learn. – George Santanaya

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You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams

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We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows. ― R.A. Salvatore

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