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"Do one thing every day that scares you."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right."
Henry Ford

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"
Pablo Picasso

"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."
— Maya Angelou

"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due." -- Neil Gaiman

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle"
Albert Einstein

"Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created."
— Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders)

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
-Nietzsche

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination."
Albert Einstein

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!" — Andrew Carnegie

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein

"Waves of light travel through an air of brief moments and the memory of your eyes is the most violent sculptor"
Unknown turn of the century science fiction novelist

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss

"So let’s stop. Let’s stop hemming and hawing. Let’s stop doing a soft shoe around who we are and what we call ourselves. Let’s learn to take both critiques and compliments. Let’s put our name on the door. Be who you are becoming. Start now."
Rachelle Mee-Chapman

"I am an artist... I am here to live out loud."
Emile Zola

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge."
- Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
— Joyce Carol Oates

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." — Roald Dahl