"Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim."

-- John Ruskin

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“I just wouldn't have believed a ball could be hit that hard. I've never seen anything like it.”
“For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent, yes, but with its edges muting over time, assuming the tree is ever growing. Years from now someone can see that you were here, or there, and although you had little conception or care for the wider branching, in the next life there might be a sigh of wonder at how quietly flourishing it all was, if never majestic.”
“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.”
“Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.”
“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.”
“Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.”

Source : Michelle Hodkin (2014). “The Retribution of Mara Dyer”, p.287, Simon and Schuster
“Love is only a dance. I'll try to apply myself And teach my heart how to sing. I'll go my way by myself Like a bird on the wing I'll face the unknown, I'll build a world of my own; No one knows better than I myself I'm by myself alone.”

Source : "Dancing in the dark".
“When I see everyone doing the same thing, I want to do the opposite.”

Source : "Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Matt Schild, music.avclub.com. January 18, 2011.

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