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Poppies
by Mary Oliver The poppies send up their orange flares; swaying in the wind, their congregations are a levitation of bright dust, of thin and lacy leaves. There isn't a place in this world that doesn't sooner or later drown in the indigos of darkness, but now, for a while, the roughage shines like a miracle as it floats above everything with its yellow hair. Of course nothing stops the cold, black, curved blade from hooking forward— of course loss is the great lesson. But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive. Inside the bright fields, touched by their rough and spongy gold, I am washed and washed in the river of earthly delight— and what are you going to do— what can you do about it— deep, blue night? http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/p...aupoem142.html |
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.
~H. Fred Dale |
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
~Marcelene Cox |
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” - Aristotle |
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” - Robert Heinlein |
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life” - Aphra Behn |
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha
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“Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think."
Guy Lombardo |
"If you could understand crazy, it wouldn't be crazy."
From Splice |
The world is new to us every morning - this is G-d's gift; and every man should believe he is reborn each day. -Baal Shem Tov- :wine: |
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"You ain't lived 'til you've had your tires rotated
By a red-headed woman, a red-headed woman." - Bruce Springsteen |
"The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware - joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
~Henry Miller |
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha |
I cannot sleep in your prescence. In your absence, tears prevent me. You watch me My Beloved On each sleepless night and Only You see the difference - Rumi |
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
~Confucius |
To have life more abundant, we must think in the limitless terms of abundance.
~ Thomas Dreier |
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not." — Dr. Seuss, from The Lorax |
There is no substitute for athletics.
Robert F. Kennedy |
Think of all the beauty thats still left in and around you and be happy! ~ Anne Frank
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fret not for the future
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For those of you who have never loved a pet, there is a part of your heart that has never been unlocked.
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"Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive." - Stacey Charter |
“One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...” - Frances Burnett |
“The closest to being in control we will ever be is in that moment that we realize we're not.” - Brian Kessler |
"Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness." Frederich Nietzsche
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, Ion
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It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. ~Dave Barry
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“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." - Rumi |
“The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it” - Sylvia Bremer |
“Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation." - Author Unknown |
"Of all the liars in the world sometimes the worst are our own fears." - Rudyard Kipling
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A conversation without tea is like the night sky without stars -Turkish saying |
"The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification,"
Moritz Schlick (German Philosopher, founder of the Vienna Circle) |
"I myself was written off and left as dead. As they said, I was not expected to make it through the night. But they did not know that the night was mine." -Nick Tosches |
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
"Poetry is like bread,” he wrote. “It should be shared by all, by scholars and peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity."--Pablo Neruda
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A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books.
~Chinese proverb |
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
~ Rose Kennedy |
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
~Benjamin Disraeli |
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