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Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood. ~Louisa May Alcott |
What is good can resist defeat; what is bad cannot.
Rabindranath Tagore |
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you
as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. John Homer Miller |
Day 29, Where The Self Divides...Jeffrey McDaniel
Loneliness is a privilege, and I'm grateful for the afternoons I had as a child to feed the crocodile I invented in my closet. How the knob's wood expanded in my hand when I threatened my friend with death. Twenty years later he still has nightmares where I get mad and fling open the door. Upstairs our mothers were one mother measuring emptiness by the milligram. Their laughter clung to the ceiling like helium balloons after a party. Only they never came down, stayed there without color or reason. Bruises are genetic. By age ten we opened a window and snapped our jaws at the world. A flashlight's subtle patch on pavement rendered bewilderment in nearly all who passed. A bucket of water dumped from three stories up onto the reliable shock of a stranger made out hair electric, teeth sharp: milk bottles, barbells came next. By twelve we slithered from the house's skin, graffitied crack room, rascal in the narrow throats of Philadelphia and knocked over trashcans with our tails. Under the dank wings of older kids on corners we learned how to steal a chump's heart without saying a word. By sixteen the boomerang of anger curved back at us. My fingers trace the hemline of a frenzy, passed down through the family like an heirloom we can all squeeze into. Each day I carry a colorless balloon and walk my crocodile through the same streets. Kids look at me funny, but I've got thick skin and a firm belief in multiplication |
'Fear of Lack' creates the thing it fears.
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"I remember yawning, because we were talking about emotional things."
- Finn Hudson, Glee |
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." ~ Brian Tracy
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In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold. ~B. Zander, The Art of Possibility |
"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title." ~ Virginia Woolf |
'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where --' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. '--so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain |
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
- Lucille Ball |
E.E. Cummings
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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The more you own, the more it owns you. —My aunt Jeanne
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"Unbecoming! A perfect word describe my new life. I, who have always been unbecoming, am now becoming un."
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Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind *** Anonymous
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You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future *** Anonymous
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As you grow older you'll find the only things you regret are the things you did'nt do.
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"To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something." ~ Shel Silverstein
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Chaos is a friend of mine.
Bob Dylan |
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