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You can be at ease only with those people to whom you can say any damn fool thing that comes into your head

John D. MacDonald

The Luncheon of the Boating Party, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Life is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass through them quickly.

Voltaire

Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, Frida Kahlo
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You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you

Doevetsky

John Martin, Le Pandemonium
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The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.

Sigmund Freud

Mask Series No. 18, Zeng Fanzhi
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If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Fall of the Damned, Peter Paul Rubens
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I'm sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.

Warsan Shire

Return of the Prodigal Son, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
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You can't smell the roses from a galloping horse

Chinese proverb

The Rose Garden at Wargemont, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

C.S. Lewis

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio
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All of us need to be on guard against arrogance, which knocks at the door whenever you're successful.

Steve Jobs

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Ann Brashares

Still Life with Apples, Paul Cézanne
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil, Claude Monet
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A real loser is somebody that's so afraid of not winning they don't even try.

Little Miss Sunshine (Film)

The Fighting Temeraire, M. W. Turner

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Ann Brashares

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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

Oscar Wilde

Broadway Boogie Woogie, Piet Mondrian
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You cannot wish for both strong character and an easy life. The price of each is the other.

Alex Hormozi

The Third-Class Carriage, Honoré Daumier
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Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter

African Proverb

The Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Wolf and the Lamb, Jean-Baptiste Oudry
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I have something he will never have: enough.

Kurt Vonnegut

The Angelus, Jean-François Millet
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on

Franklin Roosevelt

Crosscurrents, Winslow Homer
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people

Eleanor Roosevelt

The School of Athens, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
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Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died

Alexander the Great

Island of the Dead, Arnold Bocklin
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People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel

Maya Angelou

Water Lillies, Claude Monet
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If you live to be 100, I hope I live to 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you

Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)

Dance at Bougival, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Those who do not move do not notice their chains

Rosa Luxemburg

Prisoners Exercising, Vincent van Gogh
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Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free

Rumi

Joy of Life (Bonheur de Vivre), Henri Matisse
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune

Miguel de Cervantes

The Sower, Jean-François Millet
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The little prince went back to look at the roses again. "You're not at all like my rose. You're nothing at all yet," he told them. "No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone. You're the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in all the world." And the roses were humbled. "You're lovely, but you're empty," he went on. "One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass. Since she's the one I sheltered behind a screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three for butterflies.) Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Vase with Pink Roses, Vincent van Gogh
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I'm not asking you to give me a kiss, not to apologize to me when I think you've made a mistake, I won't even ask you to hug me when I need it most, I'm not asking you to tell me how beautiful I am even if it's a lie, or to write me anything nice. I'm not even going to ask you to call me to tell me how your day was, or to tell me you miss me. I'm not going to ask you to thank me for everything I do for you, or to worry about me when I'm down, and of course, I'm not going to ask you to support me in my decisions, or even to listen when I have a thousand stories to tell you. I'm not going to ask you to do anything, not even to be by my side forever. Because if I have to ask you, then I don't want it anymore.

Frida Kahlo

Lovers, René Magritte
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When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning they distract themselves with pleasure

Victor Frankl

The Swing, Fragonard
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The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt

Sylvia Plath

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper
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A goal without a plan is just a wish

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Architect’s Dream, Thomas Cole
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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Of Things to Come, Georg Scholz
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned

Buddha

Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel
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You deserve to be loved without having to hide the parts of yourself that you think are unlovable

Unknown

Untitled, Jean-Michel Basquiat
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At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?

Elie Wiesel

Narcissus, Caravaggio
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The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Rumi

Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, Georgia O'Keeffe
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Imagine being bitten by a snake, and instead of focusing on healing from the poison, you chase the snake to understand why it bit you and to prove that you didn't deserve it.

Unknown

The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, Jan Brueghel the Elder & Peter Paul Rubens
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You may get to your goal without glory or tribute, but you will feel the emptiness of a victory that cost you nothing.

Unknown

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street, Giorgio de Chirico
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If you resist being rubbed, how will you become polished?

Rumi

Ethereal Stone, Trevor Healy