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Our creativity is a wild and unexpected bonus from the universe. It’s as if all our gods and angels gathered together and said, “It’s tough down there as a human being, we know. Here—have some delights. 

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” 

― John Steinbeck

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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” 

― Albert Einstein

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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. 

— Goethe

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“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” 

― Henry David Thoreau

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“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.” 

― Yogi Berra

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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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My brain is just about broken. This quote from one of my favorite fun authors fits right in:

“2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don’t.”

― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

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I might have fiddled a little bit. Photo by Beth Rufener on Unsplash

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A long-time family friend always says goodbye by saying “Be good!” My father always answers the same way: “Have fun!”

You can see which side Samuel Clemens occupied.

“Be good + you will be lonesome. Mark Twain” British Library digitised image from page 10 of “Following the Equator. A journey around the world [With a portrait.]”

I at least try to split the difference.

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“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”

― Carl Gustav Jung

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