Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

Author: Fernando Botero

Author: Fernando Botero

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What does this mean? Simply that to make DNA, you have to have DNA in the first place! You have to h

Author: Lawrence O. Richards
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... Genesis 18 calls fathers to direct their children to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is r

Author: Tedd Tripp
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When you have discovered your significance, your life will now begin to move towards making a differ

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

Author: Laura Anne Gilman
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Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

Author: Cornelia Funke
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With my love I homeI paid for lustDigresses like some,Only, if she understood,Her curse was my unful

Author: Shreya Sethi
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Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya HaiKe Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya H

Author: Muhammad Iqbal
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We who lose our footing have lost our way.

Author: Anasazi Foundation
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I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I ju

Author: Theo Jansen
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The same way that a tiny thought in our childhood can manifest thirty years later as an anxiety diso

Author: Vironika Tugaleva
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have

Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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It's simple: What you put in, is what you get out.

Author: Akiroq Brost
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Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Author: Jim Rohn
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The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

Author: Dick Cheney
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Here then are the choices we all face moment by moment: Will we aim to be impressive? Will we expect

Author: Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
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It was not the first time - it was far from the firs time - that Damask had suspected that there was

Author: Norah Lofts
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Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was

Author: Rita Ora
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already posse

Author: Unknown
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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Author: J.K. Rowling
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She doesn’t even have shoes on” He was trying to reconcile something in his head while talking to Lu

Author: Jenna-Lynne Duncan
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Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for no

Author: Solange nicole
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Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night.

Author: Joseph B. Wirthlin
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The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory

Author: Caroline Alexander
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There are many reasons to be simple. It’s simply to learn effectively, to work positively, to commun

Author: Dee Dee Artner
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Good manners is the fabric that holds the community together.

Author: David Esabwa
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's

Author: Ai Weiwei
Quote #308108

Hmmmm...What God can't handle doesn't exist. Don't limit Him with your thoughts and words.

Author: Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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Speaking of luck, Isabelle Lightwood is a total babe. Actually, she's better than a babe: She's a he

Author: Cassandra Clare
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I'm a huge fan of the first 'Independence Day.' It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how ex

Author: Maika Monroe
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It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create

Author: Sōseki Natsume
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Author: Samuel Johnson
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I hope you don't mind spending so much time with me," Jett said. "I promise to be good, and I won't

Author: J.C. Reed
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of

Author: Carl Jung
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relati

Author: Florence Welch
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Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and

Author: Gaston Bachelard
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All men have life, but only few men know its value.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Big important days come and go and you can NOT hold onto them. The planning always lasts longer. The

Author: Julieanne O'Connor
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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Author: Les Brown
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The ocean will always betray me. No matter how beautiful it is.

Author: K.B. Ezzell
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We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books

Author: Lance Burton
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When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.

Author: Gil Penchina
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I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd l

Author: Ilona Andrews
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Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

Author: Steve Lacy
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I haven't met that many women, human or angelic, who actually like to drive. In my experience they s

Author: Tad Williams
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The idea came to me that I was am and will be but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me.

Author: Nina Berberova
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I enjoy a torture session on the rowing machine and I also enjoy my mom’s homemade peach cobbler. I

Author: Dan Pearce
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In a negotiation, we must find a solution that pleases everyone, because no one accepts that they MU

Author: Nabil N. Jamal
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So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little

Author: Ellen Hopkins
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In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

Author: Leo Tolstoy
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My star will just be one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the stars in the h

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

Author: Martin Buber
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It takes just as much training to get along with people. Only, training by yourself in the mountains

Author: Natsuki Takaya
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Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.

Author: Kahlil Gibran
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and

Author: Napoleon Hill
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His thoughts are unfathomable & her emotions are all over the place. Oh! The tragedy of Love.

Author: Ankita Singhal
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We must find the way of love rather than that of being loved.

Author: Gyomay M. Kubose
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Black hair spilling, blue eyes piercing. Enchanted by the lies that he was singing.

Author: Sara Secora
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Remember that rabbit-proof fencing you told me about? You get that at a hardware store or is it spec

Author: Elle Lothlorien
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There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The ha

Author: Jocelyn Murray
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Shigure: JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR A SECOND, KYO!Kyo: SHUT UP! I HATE THIS! DO YOU REALLY GET THAT MUCH

Author: Natsuki Takaya
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My reason to live is to love, my reason to get is to give. - The Lord is my witness.

Author: Nurudeen Ushawu
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinkin

Author: Kaley Cuoco
Quote #26599

Choose a job you love, Your work is going to fill a large part of your life.

Author: Napz Cherub Pellazo
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Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of ou

Author: Noam Chomsky
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Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of b

Author: Ana Ivanovic
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If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I

Author: Sharon Shinn
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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither libe

Author: Wendy Goerl
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I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose every

Author: Christina Baker Kline
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Sometimes, when you are busy and children ask funny questions, you don’t think so much. You just ans

Author: Jinat Rehana Begum
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If there had once been a chance and there had once been love, then it will still be there in spite o

Author: Donna Lynn Hope
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I live in harmony.No happiness has to been shown.P.C.M. Hermans

Author: Petra Hermans
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It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.

Author: Marty Rubin
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The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.

Author: The Buddha
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...landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from la

Author: simon schma
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Not all men rape. Some molest and others observe!

Author: Abhishek Leela Pandey
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comr

Author: Edward Abbey
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And I chose life and love and happiness and pain

Author: Anna Akana
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We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

Author: D.W. Winnicott
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When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and s

Author: Preston Sturges
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Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception Not on the situation.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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If you have a negative thought - 'I can't stand my boss' - it perpetuates a negative worldview. But

Author: Goldie Hawn
Quote #239766

Love is like skydiving without a parachute.

Author: Lois Greiman
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I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the

Author: Sonam Kapoor
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I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments; my first was to Iraq, in a medi

Author: Tulsi Gabbard
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All who die, are all worldly beings (sansari – believing the worldly life to be real).

Author: Dada Bhagwan
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She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meetin

Author: Laini Taylor
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I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustia

Author: Stanislas Dehaene
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There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always li

Author: Sōseki Natsume
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In bluntest terms, art museums risk being commercial institutions in which art is subsumed by econom

Author: Amy Whitaker
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All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Author: John Wooden
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Once bitten, totally smitten.

Author: Mari Mancusi
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Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand

Author: Michael Bassey Johnson
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Coercing attitude drains your strength.

Author: Toba Beta
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Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it

Author: Dave Eggers
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Loyalty. We're still loyal to the United States of America. Why? Because we too are Americans. We do

Author: Jamie Ford
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If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.

Author: Jon Stewart
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These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time.

Author: Edwidge Danticat