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 am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

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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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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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Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

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

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Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

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