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As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial. ↗

— Criss Jami

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This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. ↗

— Linda Hogan

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You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield ↗

— Matthew Quick

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If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up. ↗

— Michael Treanor

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Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. ↗

— Arthur Freed

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To find happiness in life, you must first be happy with yourself. ↗

— Ken Petti/John Amodeo

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When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad. ↗

— Lisa See

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As long as we draw breath, we owe it to the ones we loved and lost to live out our lives without wasting them on regrets. ↗

— Sharon Sala

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So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire. ↗

— Gwen Cooper

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