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15° F (-9° C) in New York this morning. This is what it takes to go out (animal & PETA followers rest assured, none of this comes from living creatures).
"I know that you've been eager to fly now /Hey, let your honesty shine, shine, shine / Like it shines on me / The only living boy in New York" - Paul Simon
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain" - C. G. Jung
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other" - Audrey Hepburn
"Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something.You are not here long" - Walker Evans
"Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat" - Jamie Oliver
"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity" - Ayn Rand
Chinese New Year coming up.
"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why? - Mark Twain
"But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself" - William Blake
"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?" - Pablo Picasso
"There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath" - Herman Melville
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star" - Henry David Thoreau
"Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you" - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life" - Miles Davis
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it" - Edith Wharton
"I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out" - David Bailey
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass" - Anton Chekhov
"My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six" - Alexander Calder
"How terribly strange to be seventy /Old friends, memory brushes the same years, silently sharing the same fears" - Paul Simon
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls" - Joseph Campbell
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive" - Joseph Campbell
"Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way" - Swami Vivekananda
"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present" - Roger Babson
"Of course I'm talking to my dawg" - Anonymous
"Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most" - Joshua Foer
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year" - Ralph Waldo Emerson (art by Hervé Hoffmann)