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Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed? ↗

— Robert A. Cook

#day #devotions #dirty #face #go

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. ↗

— Clara Barton

#always #anything #been #better #complete

Necessity is the mother of taking chances. ↗

— Mark Twain

#mother #necessity #taking #taking chances

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like. ↗

— John Barton

#belong #busier #children #close #community

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality. ↗

— John Barton

#feelings #his #impose #must #order

I don't mind nudity; I just don't do it often. ↗

— Mischa Barton

#just #mind #nudity #often

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas. ↗

— Mischa Barton

#also #comes #face #i #irritates

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#country #education #especially #government #i

and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt-this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beauty

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#artists #colossal #creative #extraordinary #great