I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

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But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

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A light here required a shadow there.

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