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"You are the artist of your own life" "my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must now fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again" "Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics - they can all be lost forever." "Life Imitates Art" "embrace the creative potential of destruction" "Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime." —Jay DeFeo "I knew the dog wouldn't hunt" "Walter, this is not the end. We're gonna win this. And when we do, we'll be... drinking strawberry milkshakes in the lab and not even gonna remember that this happened." "Perception is the key to transformation" "I was a victim of a series of accidents, as we all are." "the art of chess, the art, is knowing when a piece is most valuable and in then in that very moment being willing to sacrifice, it for in the vacuum created by the loss of what is most precious, opportunity abounds, influences maximize, and desire becomes destiny. For example, on this board the most valuable piece is the bishop, therefore for the game to be won... the bishop must be sacrificed." It Gets Better But It Will Never Be The Same Again. LOST

Favorite saying

• ""The only triumph in life is the triumph of life itself. Our awareness of it we feel as happiness. Art work represents this happiness. It does not represent life because life is infinite, dimensionless. It is consciousness itself. And that cannot be represented. But our positive response to life can be, has been, and is represented in art work" - Agnes Martin "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" - Percy Bysshe Shelley "If you dont have any shadows then you're not standing in the light." - Lady Gaga “One ought to hold on to one’s heart, for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.” ~ George R.R. Martin "I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved." - Shana Abé “I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.” - Betty Smith "True friends stab you in the front." - Oscar Wilde “We’re too smart to know there aren’t easy answers, but we’re not dumb enough to accept that there aren’t better answers" - Ann Romney "Life is not an mp3 where you can play what you want but life is a radio where you have to enjoy what is being played" - Zayn Malik “We’d all like to think that we’re strong, that we’re capable of solving our own problems. We say to ourselves, “I can do this. I will conquer this rough patch and emerge a more confident, a more accomplished me.” Sometimes, you’re right. Sometimes, all it takes is focus, direction, and your own will to make it through. But to solve the problem, you first have to acknowledge that it exists. And sometimes, your most challenging obstacle isn’t circumstance, isn’t some external force or another person. It’s you. And in the end, most of us don’t have that strength to face that music, to admit that we’re flawed. And then, you’re stuck. You can’t save yourself if you don’t know the danger you’re in.” - Being Human (US) It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. -Annie Gottlier In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. -Nathaniel Hawthorne “Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.” ~ William Bennett "Rather than seeing birth as something that is finite, that happens once, i am saying that it is infinite. You can be reborn over and over and over again until you find that most fantastic part of yourself that makes you the most happy...i wish you knew that you could find liberation in here and out there." - Lady Gaga "And I knew I had to deal with it. So I just made a choice. I'd let the fear in, let it take over, let it do its thing, but only for five seconds, that's all I was going to give it. So I started to count: one, two, three, four, five. Then it was gone. I went back to work, sewed her up and she was fine." - Jack "Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." "Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets." -Arthur Miller "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden You do not know how liberating you feel when you do something good to a stranger out of the kindness of your heart until you do it. “Simply put, you believe that things or people make you happy or unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.” ~ Wayne Dyer All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. ~ William Butler Yeats "You want to fly through space? God has already given you the most wonderful space ship in all creation! Yes! Speed? You want speed? The space ship God has given you goes sixty-six thousand miles an hour- and will keep on running at that speed for all eternity, if God wills it. You want a spaceship that will carry men in comfort? You git it! It won't carry just a rich man and his dog, or just five man or ten men. No! God is no piker! He's given you a space ship that will carry billions of men, women, and children! Yes! And they don't have to stay strapped in chairs of wear fishbowls over their heads. No! Not on God's space ship. The people on God's space ship can go swimming , and walk in the sunshine and play baseball and go ice skating and go for family rides in the family automobile on Sunday after church and a family chicken dinner!" -The Sirens Of Titan "If there is not a light at the end of the tunnel light a candle and step back." "Look at the bigger picture if you look too closely you might just hit your head." "Pieces Of Me Sucked Into Song, I Fall Back To When It Was All Alright To Be Wrong." It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress. - Jacob"