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The five random quotes meme, as a starter for this very rainy day:

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
Nancy Spain

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), quoted by Susan Litwin in 'TV Guide'

I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.
Jean Shinoda Bolen

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Model Millionaire, 1912

And an additional one:
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)