"The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present."

-- Charles Baudelaire

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“It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.”

Source : "Follow a lady's word: Betty White dispenses some relationship advice for the average male". Q&A, www.heraldextra.com. May 13, 2011.
“Horses donâ€™t think the same as humans. Something thatâ€™s most unique about the horse, that I love, is not what he possesses but what he doesnâ€™t possess. Â And that is greed, spite, hate, jealousy, envy, prejudice. Â The horse doesnâ€™t possess any of those things. Â If you think about people, the least desirable people to be around usually possess some or all of those things. Â And the way God made the horse, he left that out.”
“These little grey cells. It is up to them.”
“What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.”
“Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.”
“It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.”
“Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.”

Source : Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”
“The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.”

Source : John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.91

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