"The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do."
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"My looks had gone from well-kempt cheerleader to apocalyptic disasterpiece."
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"I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud."
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"People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore."
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"It's so important to look relaxed."
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"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way."
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"Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic."
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"I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch."
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"It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided."
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"We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out."
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"Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through."
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"Someday, our children, and our children’s children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?"
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"You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone."
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"So really what it comes down to, it's God. Wherever you look, it's God appearing as this, that, that...and what you really love and appreciate in each form is the divine formless out of which each form comes. But to be able to sense that you have to sense it in yourself first. And that is seeing the beauty in everything, that's really what it means."
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"If we Pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of our own minds. We can look at the world with fresh eyes and hear things with fresh ears."
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"Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly."
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"It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!"
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"Charles Burchfield would look at what you were working on and not say anything for several minutes. Then he would very sensitively respond - "Well, have you thought about?" or "Might you consider?" I respected that so much because I thought he was so sensitive to my work, and didn't want to offend me, but in the right way to encourage me."
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"And when you get where you’re going, you darn well better look great!"
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"Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation."
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