Ideas won’t keep…

“How do you make a life?…” #13

But you must remember that everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost, and wonders never cease.
-Muriel Spark
Loitering with Intent

Replace “artist” with a more general word for “person.” Does the quote still make sense?

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #12

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #36

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can’t bring down.
-Olive Schreiner
Blow not against the hurricane. 
-Proverb

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #98

The years forever fashion new dreams when old ones go. God pity the one-dream man.
-Robert Goddard

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #25

Your expression is the most important thing you can wear.
-Sid Ascher
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
-George Eliot
(Mary Ann Evans)
Studies show that smiling can help a person feel better. When the body acts as if it is happy, it begins to feel happy.
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Of Stranded Dragons and Whitewashed Cows #6

To a mouse, a cat is a lion.
-Albanian proverb
To an ant, a few drops of rain is a flood.
-Japanese proverb

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #30

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.
-W. Macneile Dixon

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #54

One volunteer is better than ten forced men.
-African proverb

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #63

Service is the rent each of us pays for living-the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.
-Marain Wright Edelman

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Rosiness or Gloomy Gray: On the Viewing the World #5

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-Helen Keller

What do you know about Helen Keller? What were her her sources of strength and joy? How was it that she could be such an optimist while so many other people seem to focus on “shadow”?

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