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• watch
• she
• lost

I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life. Willa Cather

• she
• absolutes
• go

You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go. Vladimir Nabokov

• growing up
• die
• growing old

You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up. Anne Rice

• dog
• environment
• intelligent

He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself. Jack London

• reading
• writing
• reading writing

If you like not my writing, go read something else. Robert Burton

• success
• the secret
• knows

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis

• life
• running
• willing

If you don't run your own life, someone else will John Atkinson

• food
• good
• god is good

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is... C. S. Lewis

• only
• forget
• deal

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else. Paulo Coelho

• question
• manners
• questioned

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question. Tina Brown

• heart
• conscience
• reminded

It's your own conscience. That is gonna remind you. That it's your heart and nobody else's. That is gonna judge. Bob Marley

• miracle
• knowingly
• miracles

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles Walt Whitman

• hurt
• about myself
• feeling

It erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me. I feel completely invincible. I feel like everyone else on that stage is invincible and we're capable of anything. There's no stopping us. Gerard Way

• sharing
• attitude
• progress

For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned... Ralph Ellison

• painting
• thinking
• work

Keith Haring wrote " You see that's why I work like a dog and I worked like a dog all my life. I am not interested in the academic status of what I am doing because my problem is my own transformation. Thats the reason also why, when people say. " Well you thought this a few years ago and now you say something else," my answer is[laughter]" well, do you think that I have worked like that all those years and not be changed?" This transformation of ones self by ones own knowledge is, I think... Keith Haring