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    Neil Gaiman
    “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, procrastination
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    Ansel Adams
    “You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: art, photography
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
    tags: art, artists, evil, happiness, pain
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    Jarod Kintz
    “Tattoos are a uniform you wear all the time. They let the world know you are different, just like everyone else who has more ink than a Tolstoy novel.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge
    tags: book, books, humor, ink, tattoos, tolstoy
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    Tara Bray Smith
    “I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. ”
    ― Tara Bray Smith
    tags: author, marginalia, pen, reader
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    “Tickle my heart with your pen.
    Write me for all to read.
    Bind our love inside a book,
    make me your poetry.”
    ― N'Zuri Za Austin
    tags: love-story, muse, national-poetry-month, pen, poetry-book, read, tickle, writer
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: inspirational
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “What is done in love is done well.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: health-gardening-flowers
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    Voltaire
    “Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Voltaire
    “The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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    Voltaire
    “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: philosophy-of-life
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    Pablo Picasso
    “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, creativity, imagination
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    Pablo Picasso
    “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: inspirational
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: diary, painting
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Your beliefs become your thoughts,
    Your thoughts become your words,
    Your words become your actions,
    Your actions become your habits,
    Your habits become your values,
    Your values become your destiny.”
    ― Gandhi
    tags: actions, habits, values
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others
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    C.G. Jung
    “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: introspection, psychotherapist, secrets, self-awareness, visions
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    C.G. Jung
    “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: addiction, psyche, psychology
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    C.G. Jung
    “There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: life
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    C.G. Jung
    “Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: wisdom
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  • #29
    Charles Bukowski
    “Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Women
    tags: bukowski, handsome
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: love
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