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1a

I tell you... I feel there is nothing more artistic than to love people.

  Vincent Van Gogh
       

1b

All paths lead to the same goal...to convey to others what we are.   Pablo Neruda
       

1c

It takes a long time to become young.   Pablo Picasso
       
2a The Land is a mother that never dies.   Native American
       
2b A man does not learn to master anything... unless he loves it.   Goethe
       
2c Many people take Jesus seriously...few people take Jesus joyfully.   Leonard Cohen
       
3a Poetry is... to speak what we feel... not what we ought to say.   Shakespeare
       
3b When tears come ... my soul is awake ... my heart is at work.   Mary Margaret Funk
       
3c All birth is unwilling and resists.   Pearl Buck
       
4a

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

  Garrison Keillor
       
4b

A function of freedom is to free somebody else.

Toni Morrison
       
4c

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

  Frank Lloyd Wright
       
5a

There can be no kingdom of God in the world ... without the kingdom of God in our hearts.

  Albert Schweitzer
       
5b

We judge success by salaries, homes, automobiles ... rather than our service to mankind.

 

Martin Luther King

       
5c

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

  Patti Smith
       

6a

Have patience ... in time, even grass becomes milk.  

  Charan Singh
       
6b

Teach the Gospel of Jesus at all times ...and if necessary, use words.

  St. Francis Assissi
       
6c

One mother can achieve more than a hundred teachers.

  Jewish Proverb
       
7a

Nature is the Art of God.

  Dante
       
7b

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

  John Muir
       
7c

Where your treasure is, there also one finds your heart.

  Jesus
       
8a

Sentiment without action is just the facade of the soul.

  Edward Abbey
       
8b

The white clouds were wonderful against the blue ... that blue will always be ... even after all mans destruction.

  Georgia O'Keefe
       
8c

Look at a scar and see hurt or ...look at a scar and see healing.

  Sherri Reynolds
       
9a

The secret of salvation is ... be sweet ... be helpful... be busy.

  Elbert Hubbard
       
9b

... Least you can do is to figure out what you hope for ... most you can do is live inside that hope.

  Barbara Kingslover
       
9c

... to befriend your enemy is the essence of true religion.

  Gandhi
       
10a Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.   John Wooden
       
10b We are here on earth to do good to others.   W. H. Auden
       
10c All wars are civil wars ...because all men are brothers.   Francis de Saligne
       
11a Christ did not say: "Love humanity as thyself"... but, "Love thy neighbor as thyself."   Luciano de Cresenzo
       
11b Love is a fruit in season at all times...and within the reach of every hand.   Mother Teresa
       
11c The soul, like a door, should stay ajar...to welcome the visit of ecstatic experience.   Emily Dickenson
       
12a Life is not what one lived...but what one remembers, and how one remembers it.   Gabriel Garcia Marquez
       
12b I want to convince you...make every day count...for you are here only a short time.   Carlos Castaneda
       
12c Across this wide country, there are all kinds of bad men... Some rob with a gun, others with a fountain pen.   Woody Guthrie
       
13a Those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them back...then you destroy yourself.   Richard Nixon
       
13b If there is any kindness...good I can do...do it now...I may not pass here again.   William Penn
       
13c We are what we give away.   Theodore Hesburgh
       
14a The curious thing about aging...looking back you don't ever regret love.   Enid Bagnold
       
14b Just a change in the weather is sometimes enough to improve others and oneself.   Marcel Proust
       
14c

There is no such thing as partial love... You either have it whole, or not.

  Anthony de Mello
       
15a The white man knows how to make everything... but he does not know how to share it.   Sitting Bull
       
15b Everywhere I go, I find a poet...an artist has been there before me.   Freud
       
15c On judgment day, we are not asked what we have read, or know...but what we have done.   Thomas Kempis
       
16a I like trees... They seem more wise and resigned to their lives than other creatures do.   Willa Cather
       
16b Love has to be made daily like bread...and given to others.   Ursula Le Guin
       
16c You gotta pay somebody...may be the Devil, or, it may be the Lord...but you gotta pay somebody.   Bob Dylan
       
17a Something there is that does not like a wall.   Robert Frost
       
17b

The world is too much with us...late and soon, getting and spending...we lose who we are.

  William Wordsworth
       
17c To describe happiness is to diminish it.   Henri Stendahl
       
18a In spite of everything... I still believe people are really good at heart.   Anne Frank
       
18b Remember: You came to bring beauty... joy... the peace of God into the world.   A Course in Miracles
       
18c Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality... it only creates new distractions and temptations.   Thomas Merton
       
19a Many desire an afterlife, but do not know what to do at home alone on rainy afternoons.   Susan Ertz
       
19b To be without some of the things you want is indisputable proof, you can still be happy.   Bertrand Russell
       
19c What we give to the poor is the brief and resume we carry with us when we die.   Peter Marin
       
20a

Ultimately, given death, does it matter if one looks foolish...tries too hard... cares too deeply?

  Diane Ackerman
       
20b

Why waste one's life in  friction, when it could be turned into momentum?

  Frances Willard
       
20c

I do not believe in God...I experience God.

  Albert Einstein

        
 

 

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