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There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.

- Leonard Cohen

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why, I succeed.
- Michael Jordan

from the google web clip:
Quote of the Day – Carl Sandburg – “Nothing happens unless first we dream.”

from idle browsing:
Muhammad Ali once quoted: “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”

and from memory when i thought of what tied the two above, or how i could illustrate them with paul klee.
“Becoming is superior to being.” – Paul Klee

I found this on a flash card I had scribbled it on earlier. It was very appropriate when I was beating up myself for “not having done much” that day:

Its never too late to be what you could have been.
-George Eliot.

“It is almost impossible to be honest and boring at the same time”.

“Telling the truth on the page, like telling the truth in a relationship, always takes you deeper”.

“As we attune ourselves more and more closely to the value of passing moments, we learn that we are something of moment ourselves”.

From The Right to Write

“A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails”. – Arabic proverb.

And Chinese brush art painting saying “Friend”

Why should we hope not to grieve?
- Vikram Seth, An Equal Music

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world”.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Take scissors to misfortune,
and make
a pair of trousers.

Ode to Life