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44th President of the United States of America 1961

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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“We inhabit the cities of the dead and their ideas inhabit us every day.”

Jorge Majfud (1969) Uruguayan-American writer

La generación FaceNoBook, Revista Alma Mater, La Habana (July 2012), p. 5

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“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”

Chester Bennington (1976–2017) American singer-songwriter

Also attributed to Johnny Depp.

“I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do…”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)”

Julia Cameron (1948) American writer

Source: God is No Laughing Matter

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well

Variant: Love all, trust a few.
Source: All's Well That Ends Well

“I hope, most revered Maestro, that these metronome markings, in my opinion wholly unneeded by you, are specific enough. Where they do not fit with your conception, I implore you urgently just to ignore them.”

Richard Strauss (1864–1949) German composer and orchestra director

Letter to Hans Von Bulow, 15th January 1890, in Schuh and Trenner, Hans von Bulow and Richard Strauss: Correspondence, in English Boosey and Hawkes 1955. Von Bulow had asked for metronome markings from Strauss for Don Juan. [Italics Strauss]
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“Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.”

Julia Cameron (1948) American writer

Source: The Prosperous Heart

“Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.”

Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way

The Artist's Way (1992)

“The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.”

Julia Cameron (1948) American writer