Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

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Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

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Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.

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One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

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Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

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The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

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