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Following in the flow of Truly's beautiful quote and in honor of Mr. Tolkien's birthday today, I offer this.
“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King |
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. (Howard Thurman)
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ~Rainer Maria Rilke |
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when they fill out a job application form.
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Jane Austen
"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.” |
Tell me, if I caught you one day and kissed the sole of your foot, wouldn't you limp a little then, afraid to crush my kiss? -Nichita Stănescu- |
"Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder."
~ Leonard Cohen |
"You are me, and I am you.
Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I will be beautiful. I transform the garbage in myself, so that you will not have to suffer." -Thich Nhat Hanh |
Time is like the wind
That comes in the morning With a barely palpable caress of the cheek Rising to a comfortable caress In its measured passage of the day Until it rises a sudden gale Revealing the irrevocability of its power Trembling our browning leaves And blowing them to our finality. ~Phillip Pulfrey, from Beyond Me, |
When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ~John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959 |
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget."
- Arundhati Roy |
Ingrid Bergman
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." |
“We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.” — Anne Lamott
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Thoreau
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William Parrish: Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say, fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who will love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head, and you listen to your heart. And I'm not hearing any heart. Cause the truth is, honey, there's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. But you have to try, cause if you haven't tried, you haven't lived.
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Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect…
It means you’ve decided to see beyond imperfections. (Author Unknown) |
“We meet our soulmates when we’re on our soul path.” |
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabian Proverb |
The golden dawn
Quit the night,seek the day,,, |
Some mistakes are just too much fun to only make once.
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love and happiness
I am not usually such a sap but I miss home....
"wear your ruby shoes when you are far away so you will always stay home in your heart." just so happens I have red patent leather shoes... hmmm...:gimmehug: |
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
—Albert Einstein |
Quote
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” ― Hippocrates |
Author Unknown
"Sunday morning is like Monday morning except with better coffee and less bullshit." |
joy
“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself” Mahatma Gandhi
“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” Mother Teresa “Joy is not in things; it is in us” Richard Wagner “He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.” Kahlil Gibran “I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.” Ani Difranco |
Joy
"At times Joy is elusive – she seems to disappear even as we approach her. I see her standing on a ridge covered with oak trees and suddenly the distance between us feels enormous. I am overwhelmed and wonder if the effort to reach her is worth it. Yet she waits for us. Her desire to walk with us is as great as our longing to accompany her."
J. Ruth Gendler |
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes |
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles Peguy I don't debate with liars. Evo Morales An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. Aristotle It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. Charles Kingsley |
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
Ovid |
Every now and then, when the world sits just right, a gentle breath of heaven fills my soul with delight... ~Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott, A Breath of Heaven |
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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an Irish Toast:
I found this quote early this morning while I was organizing folders of information I keep and while it's a bit early for an Irish blessing, I can't help but leave it today because it's so beautiful and should be shared any day or any ocassion:
I don't know who to credit as the author"May you always have warm words on a cool evening, but someone proposed a toast to me with this beautiful Irish blessing. |
I had these lyrics so wrong in my head...
So let your light shine, deep into my home
I thought it was hole not home... projection... bad Jenn. |
" What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it." - Ezra Pound
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for the femme warrior
“Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.”
Friedrich Nietzsche |
"We must bring our own light to the darkness." -Charles Bukowski
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““All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy—it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.””
Carlos Castaneda |
“Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance...is a celebration of that miracle.”
Martha Washington |
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb |
“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
~ Anais Nin |
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