"To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on."

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Source : Simon Van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.325, Oneworld Publications

Simon Van Booy

“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
“A man without patience is a lamp without oil.”
“Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.”
“All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time and I like it.”

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“Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.”
“A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret’s a secret still.”
“If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures.”
“It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts. This letter, the first and rarest of all printed Americana, describes the scenery and the natives of Hispaniola.”

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