For most, it takes at least a lifetime to say something important.
Here are some of the best-crafted thoughts I have found.

 "'you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived...'
The trick, according to Chiang, was for Jonathan to stop seeing himself as trapped inside a limited body that had a forty-two-inch wingspan and performance that could be plotted on a chart. The trick was to know that his true nature lived, as perfect as an unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and time." - 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' by Richard Bach
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 "This is this." - 'The Deer Hunter', movie
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 "If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" - Stephen Levine
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 "There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly - to keep the channel open.
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate YOU.
Keep the channel open.
No artist is pleased.
There is no satisfaction whatever at any time.
There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others." - Martha Graham to Agnes DeMille
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 "...Now I'm serving time for mistakes made by another in another lifetime. How long till my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach that kind of light?..." - "Galileo" by Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls)
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 "Innovation is only a half-step in one direction. Conformity is a half-step in the other direction." - Darren Stone
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 "You were supposed to love God and love your neighbor. You didn't do either." - 'Critical Care', movie
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 "How oft have I lashed at my will and cried:
'Leap now, leap now:'
And crouched for the leap,
And all but leaped,
But I did not leap;
For the life to which I was accustomed
held me more than the life
for which I really yearned."
- St. Augustine
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 "Yesterday is yesterday......but what can you carve out of tomorrow?" - Judge Mills Lane
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 "A heart will never be practical until it can be made unbreakable." - The Wizard
"But I still want one." - The Tin Man - The Wizard of Oz
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 "The cage seems awful empty, don't it Pa?"

"Yes son, it sure does.
But don't the trees look nice and full?" - Andy Taylor to his son, Opie, when Opie turned his pet bird loose, The Andy Griffith Show (TV show)
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 Inconvenience is "the mother of adventure." - Judith Viorst
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 "Nobody plans his own destiny; the best we can do is hit what's pitched" - Colonel Sherman Potter, M*A*S*H (TV show)
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 "Hallelujah, Noel, be it Heaven or Hell, the Christmas we get, we deserve." - "I Believe In Father Christmas" by Greg Lake and Peter Sinfield (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
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 "The best things in life aren't things." - I don't know who said it, but I saw it on a bumper sticker.
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