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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. "
~Buckminster Fuller

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
~Pablo Picasso

The cure for boredom is curiosity.  
There is no cure for curiosity.
~Ellen Parr

Credendo Vides
By believing, one sees.

"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love others."
-VanGough

"The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter ."  
~ Mark Twain

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
~ Mark Twain    

"Every artist was first an amateur."
 ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Where there is a will, there is a way."~Irish Proverb

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."
~Johann von Goethe       

"A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
~William Shedd

"Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."
~Josh Billings

"I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it."
~Jonathan Winters

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
~Plato, The Republic

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
~Sir Winston Churchill

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. "
 ~Buckminster Fuller

                                         "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
                                          ~Pablo Picasso

 "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do...

Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover. 
- Mark Twain

"What I find is that you can do almost anything
or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry." 
- Paul Theroux

"A single day is enough to make us a little larger."
~ Paul Klee

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get
in the way of your imagination. ~Sam Levenson

No one has ever become poor by giving."
-- Anne Frank

All that matters is what we do for each other."
-- Lewis Carroll

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles...
by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
- Mark Twain

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
- Seneca

"Happiness comes through doors that you didn't even know that you left open!"
-Unknown

 "To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world. "

To love and be loved, is to feel the sun from both sides.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
~ James Bryant Conant

Slow and steady wins the race.
~ Aesop

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped
possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."
~Dr. Dale Turner

"Rivers know this: There is no hurry, we shall get there some day."
                    ~ Winnie the Pooh

"We can do anything we want to as long as we stick to it long enough." 
– Helen Keller

"Inch by inch, everything's a cinch!"

"Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, 
the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares 
and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.
~ Henry Anatole Grunwald

 "I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
~ Charles Dickens

 "You have a calling which exists only for you and which only you can fulfill."
~Dr. Naomi Stephan

"The greatest classrooms of this nation or any nation are not in any school or university. 
They're around the dinner tables in the homes.
~ Richard Berendzen

Anything worth while certainly takes a while.
 ~ Mr. Rogers

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
~ Lady Bird Johnson

"Don’t listen to people that complain."
~Patricia U. Case

"Worry about it tomorrow."
~Patricia U. Case

"Some people will walk an extra mile to not believe in something"
 ~Tammy C. Johnson

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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