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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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“An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing.”

Thomas Traherne (1636–1674) English poet

First Century, sect. 1.
Centuries of Meditations

“Some unknown joys there be
Laid up in store for me.”

Thomas Traherne (1636–1674) English poet

Shadows in the Water.

“To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom.”

Thomas Traherne (1636–1674) English poet

Fourth Century, sect. 20.
Centuries of Meditations

“You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world.”

Thomas Traherne (1636–1674) English poet

First Century, sect. 29.
Centuries of Meditations

“We must delight in each other, make other's conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.”

John Winthrop (1588–1649) Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, author of "City upon a Hill"

A Model of Christian Charity, a sermon delivered onboard the Arbella (1630)

“Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually they’re going to be the only things separating you from everyone else. ”

Себастьян Стэн (1983)

“It is beautiful to give oneself to Jesus who gave himself to us without reserve.”

Cecilia Eusepi (1910–1928) Italian saint

Source: Quoted in the Angelus https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/angelus/2012/documents/hf_ben-xvi_ang_20120617.html by Benedict XVI (17 June 2012).

“I went to school like other children until I was about 11 or 12 years of age, when the greatest misfortune of my life occurred, namely — the death of my mother, peace to her, she was a good mother to me; after she died my father broke up his home and went to lodgings; unfortunately for me he married his landlady; henceforth I never had one moment's comfort, she having children of her own, and I not being so handsome as they, together with my deformity, she was the means of making my life a perfect misery; lame and deformed as I was, I ran, or rather walked away from home two or three times, but suppose father had some spark of parental feeling left, so he induced me to return home again.”

Joseph Merrick (1862–1890) English man with severe deformities

Autobiographical sideshow pamphlet

“Violent delights tend to have violent ends.”

Richard Ramirez (1960–2013) American serial killer

http://www.crimeslab.com/richard-ramirez-the-night-stalker/ Richard Ramirez the Night Stalker - Crimes Lab

“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