How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

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Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

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That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

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To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

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Creativity is intelligence having fun.

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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. _ Wade Boggs

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The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

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I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

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Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud rock it loud. - Apolo Ohno

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