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“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. And that isn't true.” ― Amy Tan

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to me somehow. ”
― Nicholas Sparks

There is a voice that you can hear when you're still
It tells you everything you need to know
It's a seed, it's a whisper, it lights a darkened room
It says..

More than the rivers
More than the sea
More than the mountains
And all of the valleys

This is your home

It breathes life into your lungs
A single breath connecting like a silver thread
Love to sorrow...Joy to dread

More than the rivers
More than the sea
More than the mountains
And all of the valleys

This is your home
This is your home...
free.

~J. Kilcher

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.

~Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.

~Whitney Griswold

"Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a smoke made
with the fume of sighs,
being purged,
A fire~ sparkling in lover's eyes ~**~
being vexed,
a sea nourished with lover's tears.
What is it else?
A madness most discreet,
A choking gall...
and a preserving sweet. (w)

~Shakespeare

Nothing to Save
by D. H. Lawrence

There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
like the eye of a violet.

“But she loves me. Me. Just the way I am.” ― P.C. Cast

“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.” ― Chester Nimitz

“Beware how you take away hope from another human being”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The Morning Walk by Mary Oliver

There are a lot of words meaning thanks.
Some you can only whisper.
Others you can only sing.
The pewee whistles instead.
The snake turns in circles,
the beaver slaps his tail
on the surface of the pond.
The deer in the pinewood stamps his hoof.
Goldfinches shine as they float through the air.
A person, sometimes, will hum a little Mahler.
Or put arms around old oak tree.
Or take out lovely pencil and notebook to find a few
touching, kissing words.

The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shriveled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless

and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,

“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep

in the empty moments.

.....there is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it is sent away....

Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.

~Robert Brault

I was in a little mountain village and found this ...

*

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change
so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you
appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you'll
eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and some times
good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand....*
and melting like a snowflake.
Let us use it before it is too late.

~Marie Beynon Ray

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.....

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. --Thomas Huxley

“The most depressed people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand. Without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”― Nicholas Sparks

"Sometimes you don't need a goal , you don't need to know the big picture. You just need to know what you're going to do next!”― Sophie Kinsella

" Life is too short to live it badly." Unknown

if yu kan read tis...

Rous r red
vilets r blue
Ms. Shey is nic
and I lik blue, two.

Made my day :)

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Originally Posted by MarquisdeShey (Post 731621)

Rous r red
vilets r blue
Ms. Shey is nic
and I lik blue, two.

Made my day :)

That sounds like a sweet poem from the pure heart of a child.

1) Kind words are the music of the world. 2) The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. 3) Happiness depends upon ourselves.