For this Day:

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..shame to boast

It was my shame, and now it is my boast, That I have loved you rather more than most. 
-Hilaire Belloc, writer and poet (1870-1953)

contradict to avoid...

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. 
-Marcel Duchamp, artist (1887-1968)

...untidy!

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. 
-John Galsworthy, author, Nobel laureate (1867-1933)

keep in balance

You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. 
-Ken Kesey, novelist (1935-2001)

add to or get from

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
~ William Osler