"If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade"

-- Simone Elkeles

#Lesson Learned Quotes #Lessons Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance tot the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept op space. All subsequent movements were latent in them or brought about by them... the two movements cannot be regarded as in opposition to each other, even though they started from opposite points; I maintain (an idea approved by Apollinaire and later by Matisse) that they are two extremes of the same sign, tending to coincide at certain points which only the poetic instinct of the painter can discover: poetry being the content and raison d'Ãªtre of art.”

Source : "Letters of the great artists" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (pp. 248-249), 1963.
“Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.”

Source : Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.600, Simon and Schuster
“Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all - why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?”
“I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.”
“I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong.”
“People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.”
“I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.”
“Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.”

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