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"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." ~ Dag Hammarskjöld
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Almost any intense emotion may open our “inward eye” to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.
Margaret Prescott Montague |
Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response -- the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.
Dan Millman |
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." ~ Theodor Geisel
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The Edge…there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. ~Hunter S. Thompson
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Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there. ~Francis Thompson, "The Poppy," 1891 |
Just found this the other day and I loved it. So perfectly summarizes so many parts of me....
Fall in love or fall in hate. Get inspired or be depressed. Ace a test or flunk a class. Make babies or make art. Speak the truth or lie and cheat. Dance on tables or sit in the corner. Life is divine chaos. Embrace it. Forgive yourself. Breathe. And enjoy the ride. Solbeam |
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now." ~ Joan Baez
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"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey |
"The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal." - Victor Hugo |
"More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn’t take them, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn’t." - Author Unknown |
“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”
~Cary Grant |
Give Me Your Hand – Rainer Maria Rilke
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousnes. Give me your hand. |
"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain." ~ Mary Catherine Bateson
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"Dear Darkening Ground"
by Rainer Maria Rilke; translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows Dear darkening ground, you've endured so patiently the walls we've built, perhaps you'll give the cities one more hour and grant the churches and cloisters two. And those that labor—let their work grip them another five hours, or seven, before you become forest again, and water, and widening wilderness in that hour of inconceivable terror when you take back your name from all things. Just give me a little more time! I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them, until they're worthy of you and real. |
"True generosity is when you give your all and yet feel as if it cost you nothing."(f) ~ adapted from Simone De Beauvoir |
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter
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"Her eyes were glittering like the eyes of a child when you give a nice surprise, and she laughed with a sudden throaty, tingling way. It is the way a woman laughs for happiness. They never laugh that way just when they are being polite or at a joke. A woman only laughs that way a few times in her life. A woman only laughs that way when something has touched her way down in the very quick of her being and the happiness just wells out as natural as breath and the first jonquils and mountain brooks. When a woman laughs that way it always does something to you. It does not matter what kind of a face she has got either. You hear that laugh and feel that you have grasped a clean and beautiful truth. You feel that way because that laugh is a revelation. It is a great impersonal sincerity. It is a spray of dewy blossom from the great central stalk of All Being, and the woman’s name and address hasn’t got a damn thing to do with it. Therefore, the laugh cannot be faked. If a woman could learn to fake it she would make Nell Gwyn and Pompadour look like a couple of Campfire Girls wearing bifocals and ground-gripper shoes with bands on their teeth. She could get all society by the ears. For any man really wants is to hear a woman laugh like that."
— Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) |
“The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's 'own' or 'real' life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.” - C.S. Lewis
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Grandma always says....
"Love 'em for who they are...and don't ever try to change 'em" |
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