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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
~ Thomas Haliburton, 19th Century Canadian writer |
Trust
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ~Billy Wilder
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
--Alice Walker |
"Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love." EA Opheliac WS Hamlet, "Letter to Ophelia" |
The Weight
by Linda Gregg Two horses were put together in the same paddock. Night and day. In the night and in the day wet from heat and the chill of the wind on it. Muzzle to water, snorting, head swinging and the taste of bay in the shadowed air. The dignity of being. They slept that way, knowing each other always. Withers quivering for a moment, fetlock and the proud rise at the base of the tail, width of back. The volume of them, and each other's weight. Fences were nothing compared to that. People were nothing. They slept standing, their throats curved against the other's rump. They breathed against each other, whinnied and stomped. There are things they did that I do not know. The privacy of them had a river in it. Had our universe in it. And the way its border looks back at us with its light. This was finally their freedom. The freedom an oak tree knows. That is built at night by stars. |
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."(f)
– Winston Churchill |
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” - Edgar Allan Poe
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“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” - Aristotle |
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life” - Aphra Behn |
“Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” - Stacey Charter |
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Eldridge Cleaver |
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect.
We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. U. Thant |
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.(f)
Arnold Toynbee 1852-1883, British Economic Historian and Social Reformer |
The journey is the reward . -Chinese Proverb |
"You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible." - Rita Dove
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A new principle to live by...
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers
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"Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride." - William Gass |
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
--Lily Tomlin |
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'
~C. S. Lewis |
"A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker; and a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker." ~Anonymous
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