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"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
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"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."

"Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others."

"Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other."

"There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs."

"The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you."

"Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener."

"People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ['Le ciel c'est l'autre']"

"Success-minded people know that first and foremost, in all we do, we must think of others first. By thinking of others, how they feel and what they need, will not cost you a thing nor will it lessen what you have to say."
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"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

"It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased."

"I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree."

"One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work."

"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."

"I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint."
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