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Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. ~Author Unknown



One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb



The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ~Pablo Picasso



The jeweler allows me to wear the sapphire blue lake on my finger, the emerald green leaves around my neck, and take the citrine sunset with me wherever I go. Jewelry has become my daytime link to nature in an office with no windows. And if I have to work late, there's nothing like diamond stars and a pearl full moon against an onyx night sky. ~Astrid Alauda, "Office With No Windows"



Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894



I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson



Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard



He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. ~William Shakespeare



Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~Aristotle



Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Attributed to Sandra J. Dykes



A lady, with whom I was riding in the forest, said to me, that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward: a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "History"



If you don't quote yourself, nobody else will. And you can quote me on that. ~Scott Ginsberg, www.hellomynameisscott.com



Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Plato



Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912



I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it. ~Author Unknown



If cats could talk, they wouldn't. ~Nan Porter



It's about ten times the size of the Bible - and unlike the Bible, contains no good news. ~Don Nickles, about the Internal Revenue Code



Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden



You know those days when you've got the mean reds.... the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly