Do small things with great love.
~ Mother Theresa (1910-1997)

Every morning when I wake up I experience an exquisite joy -- the joy of being Salvador Dali -- and I ask myself, in rapture, what wonderful things is Salvador Dali going to accomplish today?
~ Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

To the world, you may be one person,
but to one person, you may be the world.
~ Anonymous

Life is in the striving, not the arriving.
- seth

Not all who wander are lost.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for.
~ John Shedd (1859- ?)

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
~ Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Conventional wisdom only results in conventional results.
~ Mario Gabelli (1942- ), Fund manager

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

Put up with small annoyances to gain great results.
~ Peking Noodle Co.

An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within."
~ photographer Aaron Rose

Yeah, it's a kiddie book, but so what? Nobody - not Nietzsche, not Norman Vincent Peale - ever did a better job of stoking the fires of willpower. Decades after childhood, it's still imposethible to forget the mantra of the little blue train: 'I think I can. I think I can.'
~ From a book review in Newsweek rating the all-time greatest books.At number 7, "The Little Engine That Could” by Watty Piper.

The need for some people to seek great fame is most likely propelled by the subconscious desire to read their obituaries while they’re still living.
-seth

Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.
~ Amos Oz (1939- )

Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
~ Malcolm de Chazal (1902-1981)

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
~ Robert Greene Ingersoll (1833-1899)

Bad things happen when good things are taken for granted.
- seth

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well
~ William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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