I'm stuck within the mortal framework of having to use words.You've seen them by now: the numerous quotes I put on my page. You'll find them everywhere! And now you will find them here. Admittedly, these quotes don't have the most significance; they are just the ones I have collected lately. Stay tuned!
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“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?—it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-by. But we learn forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” –Jack Kerouvac "Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil." -- Denis Waitley "Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." -- Scott Adams “He hath achieved a maid/That pargons description and wild fame,/One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens,/And in th’essential vesture of creation/Does tire the ingener.” –Cassio (II, i), Shakespeare “Perdition catch my soul/But I do love thee./And when I love thee not, chaos is come again.” –Othello (III, iii), Shakespeare “If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears, each drop she falls would prove crocodile.” –Othello (IV, i), Shakespeare “Unkindness may do much, and his unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love.” –Desdemona (IV, ii), Shakespeare “O thou weed/Who art so lovely fair, and smell’st so sweet/That the sense aches at thee.” –Othello, Shakespeare “So sweet was never so fatal.” –Othello (V, ii), Shakespeare “What you know, you know.” –Iago (V, ii) “…Speak of one that loved not wisely, but too well.” –Othello (V, ii) "You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again." -- Bonnie Prudden "Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted." --Eleanor Roosevelt "Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot / That it do singe yourself." --William Shakespeare (Henry VIII) "Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel." --Elias L, Magoon "Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone." --Agnes McPhail "It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis." --Margaret Bonano "when you can't find the light,/ that got you through the cloudy days./ when the stars aren't shining bright/ you feel like you've lost your way./ when those candle lights of home/ burn so very far away/ well you got to let your soul shine / just like my daddy used to say" -Allman Brothers Band, "Soulshine" "Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in." -- Wanda Carter "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -- Ellen Parr "From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues." -- Jason Berg "I still believe in paradise but now I know that it's not a place you can look for because it's a moment in your life when you're a part of something. And if you find that moment, it lasts forever..." –from The Beach When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something to stand on or you will be taught how to fly-Barbara J. Winter
"But every time I turn the volume down "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." -- Warren G. Bennis "Doubt sees the obstacles Faith sees the way. Doubt sees the darkest night. Faith sees the day. Doubt dreads to take a step. Faith soars on high. Doubt questions, 'Who believes'? Faith answers ,'I'." –Unknown
"we couldn't all be cowboys "When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises." Franklin P. Adams "The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder." Æschylus (525-456 BC) "the metronome is wrong again, my heart as surely gone and skipped a beat" –Cave In “You can't judge a book by its cover... But you can tell how much it's going to cost.” --Unknown Author "Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success." Stephen A. Brennan
Jessica Rabbit: You don't know what it's like
Being a woman looking the way I do. "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." Indira Nehru Gandhi (1917-84) "Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself." --Doris Lessing "What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner." --Colette "Time is the wisest counselor of all." --Pericles "He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears." --Michel de Montaigne "I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul." Victor Hugo (1802-85) "No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." William Blake (1757-1827) "Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?" --Lillian Hellman "True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom known until it be lost." --Charles Caleb Colton "A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through." --Laurence J. Peter "There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." --Proverbs 18:24 “In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with." Brian Tracy "If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor." --Jennifer Jones "Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are." --Jean-Anthelme Brillat –Savarin "The work will teach you how to do it." --Estonian Proverb "No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted." --Olive Schriner "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." --Thomas Szasz
To live is like to love "Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself." -- Richard David Bach (b. 1936) "You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness." --Anon. "What's important is finding out what works for you." --Henry Moore "All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination." --Barbara Grizutti Harrison "Reach high, for stars hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." --Pamela Star "Nothing happens unless first a dream." --Carl Sandburg "Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined." Rodan of Alexandria "Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile." --Bertrand Russell "The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor." --Christian Bovee "You have not lived a perfect day, even though you earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you." --Ruth Smeltzer "We almost made it, but we wanted it all." --Burt Bacharach & Carol Bayer Sager "Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do." --Bruce Crampton "Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing." --Katherine Mansfield "As you make your way through this hectic world of ours, set aside a few minutes each day. At the end of the year, you'll have a couple of days saved up." Child Age 7 "I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr. (1839-1937) "Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light." -- Jennie Jerome Churchill
I really believe that if there's any kind of God, "We’ve got to figure out if we’re ever going to turn back I heard it in your sleep last night You whispered that there was always more to this meeting I know you You’re holding more than you are But you would never believe that you are And it’s the truth, it’s the end, it’s the now And though the sound is only part of the reason Now it’s all we hear As beautiful as you are, your words are pure movements And oh the sound, so cool" -Rumanastone, "The Sound" "You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward." --James Thurber "A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind." Eric Mascall "The best time to make friends is before you need them." --Ethel Barrymore "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." --Mark Twain "The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it." --Eric Hobsbawm "Boast not thyself of to-morrow: for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." --Proverbs, 27: 1 "You can never plan the future by the past." --Edmund Burke
With love's light wings "If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time." Marian Wright Edelman (b. 1939) "The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post." --L. Thomas Holdcroft "The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty, not knowing what comes next." --Ursula K. Leguin "Good is not good, where better is expected." --Thomas Fuller "Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" --Robert Browning "Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead." --Louisa May Alcott "A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means." --Henry Hazlitt "Friendships aren't perfect, and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release." --Letty Cottin Pogrebin "You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, it's nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there - that's disgrace." --Edmund Vance Cooke "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." --Muhammad Ali "On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property." Buddha (563?-483? BC)
By the time you swear you're his, "Sometimes I wish we had a short term memory just enough to recognize each other's face It would be the same old stories but you're hanging onto every single word I have to say And to the world I'm not that clever but you would stay with me forever I'd keep your friends from reminding, reminding you to Save yourself, leave me behind you would if you had half a mind" -Verve Pipe, "Half a Mind" If I go away What would still remain of me? The ghost within your eyes? The whisper in your sighs? You see...Believe And I'm always there >Jon Oliva "Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success." -- Denis Waitley "Inside myself is a place where I live alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up." --Pearl S. Buck "I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public; talent in privacy." --Marilyn Monroe "Consider that this day ne'er dawns again." Alighieri Dante (1265-1321) "Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about." --Alexandra Ripley "Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned." --Emily Dickinson "Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either." --Sir Archibald McIndoe "No matter how much a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others." --John Craig
If there were no words
"I kept the right ones out "Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." --Socrates "Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities." --John Wicker "Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem." --Eric Hoffer "All that is necessary is to accept the unacceptable, do without the indispensable, and bear the unbearable." --Kathleen Norris "There is no data on the future. -Laurel Cutler "When you can't solve the problem, manage it." --Dr. Robert H. Schuller "The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously." --Helen Gurley Brown "Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat." --Harry Emerson Fosdick His kiss was so gentle I wanted to cry. I gave everything I had to the moment. I lingered over the feel of his lips, trying to memorize every sensation. I was using my own lips to convey the strength of my feelings, to apologize for all the times I'd rebuffed him, to learn what it felt like to kiss another person with my whole heart. --From: James Patterson book: Cradle and All "There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish." Warren G. Bennis (b. 1925) "Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." --Richard M. Nixon "Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred-this is the law Eternal." –Buddha And indeed I felt happy with her, so perfectly happy, that the one desire of mine was that it should differ in nothing from hers, and already I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path. Andre Gide "Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket." Mark Twain (1835-1910) "We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough... What do you most want to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties." --Katherine Mansfield "What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be." --Ellen Burstyn "Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover." --Susan Coolidge "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." --Bertrand Russell "Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." --Swedish proverb
"Bury me softly in this womb
Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved "Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy." --J. Krishnamurti "Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults." --Thomas Szasz "Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory." Alan Alda "Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers." Unknown
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"Some things are better left undone "To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker, if you will." --Judith Guest "Some things are better left undone "To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker, if you will." --Judith Guest "It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires." --Rebecca West "The time comes when you realize that you haven't only been specializing in something - something has been specializing in you." --Arthur Miller "Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third." --Marge Piercy "Happiness is a function of accepting what is." --Werner Erhard "There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them." --Phyllis Bottome "When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man." – Alain “The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.” –Jean Paul Richer “Angels are in the heavens, I am sure, because there are deeds done by mortals that are difficult to explain by the mortal nature of man. The angels of self-sacrifice and everlasting devotion, of courage and tenderness—they must be fluttering about in the winds high above, sometimes taking on the face of man and his flesh.” –Dagobert D. Runes “The angels...regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.” –John Calvin "Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!" -- Amanda Bradley "Relationships—of all kinds—are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost." ~Kaleel Jamison "I feel head-over-heels in love—and skinned my knees." "Sometimes I feel like I am drunk behind the wheel of possibilities." ~Fastball "Sing this day thy victories: Then shall the fall further the flight in me." ~G. Herbert "Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell." ~from Macbeth "Never live for someone else." ~Goo Goo Dolls "Someday when the world has passed me by, I’ll lay around and wonder why you were always there for me." ~Sugar Ray "Feelings change so fast. Safety scares them away." ~Jimmy Eat World "I had the sense to recognize that I don’t know how to let you go." ~Sarah McLachlan "[We were] true in our fall, [but] false in our rising." ~from Paradise Lost "It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires." --Rebecca West "The time comes when you realize that you haven't only been specializing in something - something has been specializing in you." --Arthur Miller "Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third." --Marge Piercy "Happiness is a function of accepting what is." --Werner Erhard "There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them." --Phyllis Bottome "When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man." – Alain “The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.” –Jean Paul Richer “Angels are in the heavens, I am sure, because there are deeds done by mortals that are difficult to explain by the mortal nature of man. The angels of self-sacrifice and everlasting devotion, of courage and tenderness—they must be fluttering about in the winds high above, sometimes taking on the face of man and his flesh.” –Dagobert D. Runes “The angels...regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.” –John Calvin "Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!" -- Amanda Bradley "Relationships—of all kinds—are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost." ~Kaleel Jamison "I feel head-over-heels in love—and skinned my knees." "Sometimes I feel like I am drunk behind the wheel of possibilities." ~Fastball "Sing this day thy victories: Then shall the fall further the flight in me." ~G. Herbert "Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell." ~from Macbeth "Never live for someone else." ~Goo Goo Dolls "Someday when the world has passed me by, I’ll lay around and wonder why you were always there for me." ~Sugar Ray "Feelings change so fast. Safety scares them away." ~Jimmy Eat World "I had the sense to recognize that I don’t know how to let you go." ~Sarah McLachlan "[We were] true in our fall, [but] false in our rising." ~from Paradise Lost
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"Optimism is an intellectual choice." --Diana Schneider "Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed." --Vincent van Gogh "Nobody, but nobody / Can make it out here alone." --Maya Angelou "Happiness is a way station between too little and too much." --Channing Pollock "It is the chiefest part of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is." --Erasmus "A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member." -- Johathan Edwards "Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do." --John Milton "Somebody's boring me; I think it's me." --Dylan Thomas "The value of life lies, not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them: a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will." --Michel de Montaigne "He is well paid that is well satisfied." --Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice "Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." --Bette Davis, in the film, "Now, Voyager" "Finders keepers losers weep/Down on 42nd Street/ Oh, bare-foot children cryin' my,oh,my/I watched you on the avenue/While other men were having you/ I think that you should let your caged bird fly/And kiss your past good-bye.” -Aerosmith, "Kiss Your Past Good-Bye" "What helps me to go forward is that I stay receptive. I feel that anything can happen." --Anouk Aimee "Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." --Bern Williams "We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat." --Queen Victoria "Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything." --Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz) "When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul!" --Rabbi Harold Kushner "He who laughs, lasts."--Mary Pettibone Poole "Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought." --Albert Szent-Gyorgyi "No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive." --John Cassavetes "Discipline and focused awareness . . . contribute to the act of creation." --John Poppy "Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky." --Charles Kingsley (1819-75) "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." --Alfred, Lord Tennyson "He who knows others is wise; / He knows himself is enlightened." --Lao-Tzu "Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." --Liz Smith "I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the largest number of creative reasons on its side." --Katharine Butler Hathaway "Money often costs too much." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family." -- Virginia Satir "Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?" ~Dame Margot Fonteyn "Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return." ~Leonardo di Vinci "If I go crazy, then will you still call me Superman?" ~3 Doors Down "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." ~from The Matrix "These are the last words I have to say. That's why this took so long to write. There will be other words some other day, but that's the story of my life...It's always hard to say goodbye, but now it's time to put this book away. Ain't that the story of my life" -Billy Joel "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." "The future is no place to place your better days." ~Dave Matthews Band "You make me real." ~Smashing Pumpkins "Heaven knows we need not be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts…" ~from Great Expectations "Motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved—by standing still." ~from Inherit the Wind "If God had a sense of humor, it would explain a lot of things." ~Dogbert "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." ~Sir Edmund Hillary "We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known." ~F. Sagan "You realize your wildest dreams can hurt you." ~Blues Traveler "Oh, life is bigger. It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. The lengths that I will go to, the distance in your eyes." ~REM "If you were happy everyday of your life, you wouldn’t be a human being; you’d be a game show host." ~from Heathers "To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one." ~Jack Kornfield "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away." ~The Beatles "So I know I’m alright. Life will come. Life will go. So I feel it’s alright. Someone got a letter to my soul. When your whole life is on the tip of your tongue. Empty pages for the no longer young. The apathy of time laughed in your face and you say, ‘Each life has its place.’"~Indigo Girls "Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell." ~Aldous Huxley "In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and still they’re beautiful.’ ~Alice Walker "If . . . you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." --Catherine Aird "Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful." --Raquel Welch "You are the one who must choose your place." --James Lane Allen “Beside each man who’s born on earth/A guardian angel takes his stand,/to guide him through life’s mysteries.” –Menander of Athens “In this dim world of clouding cares,/We rarely know, till ‘wildered eyes/See white wings lessening up the skies,/Then angels with us unawares.” –Gerald Massey “And with the morn, those angel faces smile/Which I Have loved long since, and lost awhile.” –John Henry Newman “He passed the flaming bounds of place and time:/The living throne, the sapphire-blaze,/Where angels tremble, while they gaze,/He saw; but blasted with excess of light,/Closed his eyes in endless night.” –Thomas Gray “Angels…with beautiful wings of silk and crowns of baby rosebuds…all live together in a castle…and when the angels want to go someplace they just whistle—and a cloud floats to the castle door and picks them up. And the angels ride through the sky riding the cloud like a magic carpet—under the moon and through the stars—until they’re right above us. That’s how they can look down and see if we’re all right—and sometimes even send messages to us.” –from The Little Princes “Unless you can love, as the angels may,/With the breath of heaven betwixt you…/Oh, never call it loving.” –Elizabeth Barrett Browning “Love’s heralds should be thoughts/Which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams/Driving back shadows over low-ring hills;/Therefore do nimble-pinion’d doves draw love;/And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.” –William Shakespeare “Her beautiful hair draped over me—like an angel’s wing.” –Charles Dickens “Oh Lyric love,/Half angle and half bird,/And all a wonder/And a wild desire.” –Robert Browning
Love "What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” -- Crowfoot "You learn to build your roads on today, because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans, and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight." --Veronica Shoffstal "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." --Theophrastus "What isn't tried won't work." --Claude McDonald "The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success." --B. C. Forbes "He who would have fruit must climb the tree." --Thomas Fuller "The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are going." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes "Never hold onto something because you are afraid to let go." "Happy that few of us are aware of the world until we are already in league with it." ~Elizabeth Bowen "You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself." ~Pearl Bailey
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