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Renew thyself completely each day.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau
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When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
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Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
Barbara JanuszkiewiczBarbara Januszkiewicz I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.
Barry McGeeBarry McGee My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein I’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
MF DOOMMF DOOM So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
Al StewartAl Stewart What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
Keith RichardsKeith Richards A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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