You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is what everyone in the world has dreams of when they think about New York. And I thought, 'My God, I'm in Heaven. I'll be dancing down Fifth Avenue like Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers.'

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"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."

- Frank McCourt

Motivation

"After a full belly all is poetry."

- Frank McCourt

Creativity

"For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place."

- Frank McCourt

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"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

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"Tuesdays are for chasing rainbows and dancing in the rain."

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"You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness."

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"Taste and see how good the Lord is! The one who takes refuge in him is truly happy!"

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"The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays."

- W. C. Jones

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