"Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me."

-- Samuel Morse

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“No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.”
“If Vladimir Putin is conscious and aware of his standing in the world economy, he has to understand this aggression in Crimea is not helping the reputation of Russia as a modern nation where you can do business. He's back to the old Soviet ways and a lot of folks are going to hold back and pull back as a result of it. I think he may have second thoughts.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“I think it's important to be happy before you can make anybody else happy.”
“I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder.”
“I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.”

Source : Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.288
“How do you change what you believe when your experience has convinced you otherwise? By creating a new experience. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. By the natural law of cause and effect, that new response will create new results, which you will then experience as a new reality. To reach the goal of happiness, act as though the following statement is already true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me.”

Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.14, BookBaby
“You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.”

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