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Can't, I'm booked!

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"A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present" – Thomas Fuller (1608 – 1661)

Photo by Glamourous Little Side Project

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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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"I tried to do handstands for you but everytime I fell for you" song lyrics by Chairlift from "Bruises," the latest song to be featured in an iPod Nano Chromatic commercial. The song has been mistakenly referred to as "I Tried To Do Handstands For You" based on the portion of lyrics heard in the commercial. The song is from the Chairlift's 2008 debut album "Do You Inspire You."

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Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
--Marie Antoinette

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“There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.” –Stephen Dunn, from “Some Things I Wanted to Say to You”

Photo by Sarah Norris, ETSY

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The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
-Amelia Earhart

http://www.ameliaearhart.com/

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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. –Albert Einstein

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I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out my nose. –Woody Allen

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. –Leonardo da Vinci

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"Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed," I said. - Coco Chanel

photo by casafree.com

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Happy Labor Day

"One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdowns is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important."

--Betrand Russell, philosopher

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Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion! --G.W.F. Hegel

Photo on flickr: .bella.

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

--Dorothy Thompson

Photo: no credit

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"People who give will never be poor." -Anne Frank
Photo by M.Barnes copyright 2009

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"Take pleasure in the ordinary, as well as, the extraordinary."

Photo by M. Barnes copyright 2009

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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." -Edith Wharton

Photo by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/89134433@N00/367937551/

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"That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kidness and of love." -William Wordsworth

photo by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/soylentgreen23/491093601/

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"There is no remedy for love, but to love more." -Henry David Thoreau

This is the second part of the Sleeping Beauty portrait by Annie Leibovitz.

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"We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground." -Theodore Roosevelt, Selections from Roosevelt

Photo by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/visbeek/3085560488/