Some of the worst

mistakes of my life

have been haircuts.

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-Jim Morrison

hieronymus bosch

You will not surely die.

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-Genesis 3:4 (the serpent)

Teach us delight

in simple things.

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-Rudyard Kipling

Think of how stupid

the average person is,

and realize half of us

are stupider than that.

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-George Carlin

You can’t turn back the clock,

but you can wind it up again.

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–Bonnie Prudden

A man wrapped up in himself

makes a very small bundle.

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-Benjamin Franklin

We must travel in the

direction of our fear.

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-John Bunyan

m. c. escher

Consider how hard it is

to change yourself and you'll

understand what little chance

you have of changing others.

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-Jacob Braude

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Cuckoo Flower

A gentle answer turns

away wrath.

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-Proverbs 15:1

Where the speech is

corrupted, the mind is also.

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-Seneca (54bc - 39ad)

John William Waterhouse

Hear the other side.

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-Augustine

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

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-Robert Frost

Simplicity is the ultimate

sophistication.

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-Leonardo da Vinci

Today is yesterday's

pupil.

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-Thomas Fuller

Art enables us to find

ourselves and lose ourselves

at the same time.

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-Thomas Merton

Better to live on a corner of

the roof than share a house

with a quarrelsome wife.

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-Proverbs 21:9

There is no duty we so

much underrate as the

duty of being happy.

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-Robert Louis Stevenson

Silence is the mother

of truth.

*

-Benjamin Disraeli

There must be more to life

than having everything.

*

-Maurice Sendak

There's nothing I'm afraid

of like scared people.

*

-Robert Frost

Many men can make a fortune,

but very few can build

a family.

*

-J. S. Bryan

The universe is a big place,

perhaps the biggest.

*

-Kurt Vonnegut

Let your foot be seldom in

your neighbor's house,

lest he have his fill of you

and hate you.

*

-Proverbs 25:17

photograph by annie huntington

Autumn is a second spring

when every leaf is a flower.

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-Albert Camus

The crows seemed to be calling

his name, thought Caw.

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-Jack Handey

Language is the source

of misunderstandings.

*

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Only God can count the
number of apples in a seed.
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-Robert Schuller

8Every coffee bean is hand picked.

8There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.

8Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Friends are the bacon bits

in the salad bowl of life.

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-anonymous

Now I lay me down to sleep,

I pray thee Lord, my soul to keep;

If I should die before I wake,

I pray thee Lord my soul to take.

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-The New England Primer, 1690

The great mass of people

will more easily fall victim

to a big lie than a small one.

*

-Adolph Hitler

It could be that the purpose

of your life is only to

serve as a warning to others.

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-despair.com

I deal with the obvious. I present,

reiterate and glorify the obvious -
because the obvious is what people

need to be told.

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-Dale Carnegie

Give me the splendid silent sun,

with all his beams full-dazzling.

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-Walt Whitman

I get by with a little help

from my friends.

*

-John Lennon

Love is an act of endless forgiveness,

a tender look which becomes a habit.

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-Peter Ustinov

Most people are bothered by those

passages in Scripture which they

cannot understand; but the ones

which trouble me are those which I

do understand.

*

-Mark Twain

I have only one superstition.

I touch all the bases when I hit

a home run.

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-Babe Ruth

photograph by brae

I like boring things.

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-Andy Warhol

Hearing the confessions of

nuns is like being stoned

to death with popcorn.

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-Bishop Fulton Sheen

andy warhol, flowers

What is art but a way of

seeing?

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-Saul Bellow

photograph by anna harr

When I have a camera in

my hand, I know no fear.

*

-Alfred Eisenstaedt

illustration by sam brown

Inspiration usually comes

during work, rather than

before it.

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-Madeline L'Engle

A man may be theologically knowing

and spiritually ignorant.

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-Stephen Charnock

Do not accustom yourself

to use big words for little

matters.

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-Samuel Johnson

It is solved by walking.
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-Latin proverb

Economy is half the battle of life.

It is not so hard to earn money as

to spend it well.

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-Charles Spurgeon.

photo by bronwyn

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors,

a location where, it cannot be argued, there are

not enough comfortable chairs.

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-Fran Lebowitz

Winslow Homer, Snap the Whip

If you want to see what children can

do, you must stop giving them things.

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-Norman Douglas

photograph by sienna

The essence of the beautiful

is unity in variety.

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-W. Somerset Maugham