"I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint."
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"I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?"
"If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality."
"Science, where would scientists be without it? They’d probably still be in my basement, where I left them a few minutes ago."
"It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.''Why are you saying that?''She might need permission to die, Cal.''I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission."
"Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books..."
"You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan."
"Mr. Bradford,"she said. "I'm not going to propose to you."The twinkle in Mr. Bradford's eyes faded. So did his smile. He managed to keep it on his face. It looked painful."Oh,"he said."Mr. Bradford?""Yes?""Would you mind it so very much if...you know...you proposed to me?"The light in Mr. Bradford's eyes jumped to life. He beamed so largely it almost wasn't crooked."If you want."
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."
"I am not afraid... I was born to do this."
"We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are."
"The Phenomenon of Life {Couplet} The potter's some man of clay who's molding clay,a robot making an automaton;Every day we recreate ourselves from what bricks we're made,how wondrous life's phenomenon!"
"الحقيقة يمكن أن تتخذ ألف شكل لأعيننا إذا اتخذنا ألف موقع نلاحظها منه .. و إن شهادة الحواس سوف تظل تنقل لنا مراتب مختلفة من الحقيقة كلها نسبية بحسب الظروف التي نشاهدها فيها .."
"Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher."
"No one makes it to the "top"by themselves. Each step you take is guided by at least one person's blood, sweat and tears. Appreciate those who stand behind you as you rise. They are the only ones who will catch you if you fall. The ladder of success is steadiest when someone's there to support it."
"What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go."
"You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it."
"How long have you been standing there?""Just long enough to see you give Daemon the middle finger.""He deserved it."
"I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too."
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
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