"You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors."

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Source : Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich (1973). “Winslow Homer”

Winslow Homer

#Live By Quotes

“New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.”
“If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.”

Source : "Mary Beard reveals she befriended Twitter trolls following online abuse" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2014.
“I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.”
“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.”
“Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.”
“Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the garden.”
“I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.”
“Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.”

Source : Sherwin B. Nuland (1994). “How We Die”, Vintage

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