The power of thought

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Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.

Watch your actions, for they become habits.

Watch your habits, for they become character.

Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

-Unknown

Falling apart means falling together

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I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

- Marilyn Monroe

Making the best of things... always

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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

Forgetfulness is bliss

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The sunset of life

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The movie of your life

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.

–Unknown

Lots to learn from nature

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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sing, dance, write, paint & make merry... because you can

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Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

-Henry van Dyke

Nothing to lose

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If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.

- Unknown

Explore, dream, discover!

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than be the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain

Inspired writing

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Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

- Susan Sontag

Trust in friends

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It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

- Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Community

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A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

- Rudolf Steiner

Life is as dull as you make it

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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Who can you be stupid with?

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It is one of the blessings oft old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our fast-paced world

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These are times of fast food but slow digestion; tall man but short character; steep profits but shallow relationships.

- The Dalai Lama

The heart in the closet

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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Words of wisdom on writing from someone who knows

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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

- Barbara Kingsolver

Older and wiser

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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

- Alden Nowlan

Curb your anger!

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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

~Chinese Proverb