All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. - Juvenal

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. - Lucy Larcom

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.- Edgar Allan Poe

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. - Nadia Boulanger

Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong. - Barbara Streisand

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. - John Irving

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. - Samuel Butler

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. - Vernon Howard

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. - Daniel J. Boorstin

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. - Simone Weil

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. -  J. B. Priestley

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. - Jean Paul

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are. - Joan Rivers

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James A. Baldwin

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. - Bernard Williams

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - Saint Augustine

The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds. - Jean Paul

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill 

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Have a warm, cosy winter with your friends and family.

Love always,
As ever, A-C

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