Favorite Quotations
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I love the pebbles/mountains one!
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Thanks for posting Kelly, I always love looking up and learning about something new! I had not read Hafiz. xo
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
Carl Jung -
Leap and the net will appear.
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That reminds me of a poem by Christopher Logue called Come to the Edge:
Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came,
And he pushed,
And they flew.
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"Until the Lion writes his own story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." African proverb....
"Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman". unknown
"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak" author unknown
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left" author unknown
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Love them all! Especially first and last. Thanks so much for contributing--xo
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A couple good quotes on change:
'Big changes in our lives are more or less a second chance." Harrison Ford
"Start by starting." Meryl Streep
"Do or do not. There is no try. " Yoda
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sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same...
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
TS Eliot
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How True!
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Re: Decisions. You don't seem to have to talk yourself into the good ones.
Tom Selleck, playing a police comish. on "Blue Blood".
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"The question is not whether we will be extremist, but what kind of extremist will we be? Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice--or wll we be extremists for the cause of justice?"
MLK, letter from Birmingham jail, April, 1963
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Excellant and very timely.
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"When you're afraid of the dark, Remember the night rainbow..." Cooper Edens
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What the hell is a night rainbow?
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"For I have loved the stars too fondly to be afraid of the night". Coale -
Lovely Ruth. Thanks
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When I despair...I remember that all throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers and for awhile they may seem invincible...but in the end thay always fall. Remember this always." Gandhi
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'Remember yesterday and dream about tomorrow,
But you better live for today'
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I'm trying sister--thanks for the reminder--it is easy to lose perspective
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Until lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter.
African Proverb
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Great Ruth, thanks...!
" Am not waiting for tomorrow because I am busy bringing the best out of today."
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"Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed the passage with you?"
Walt Whitman, 1860
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always one of my favorites (just found this thread and love it)
Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisble pour les yeux. - "Here is my secret. it is very simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes." - Le Petit Prince
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The best gift a mother can give to her child is to love their father.
Want to see God laugh..........Make a plan
Wish in one hand sh-t in the other, see which gets full first.....(that was my dear mothers)
God wll never give you more then you can handle
Learn from Yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow
A true friend is someone who walks in, when the rest of the world walks out.
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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~Mark Twain
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How wonderful it would be to see Angels where there are only clouds, how sad it would be to see clouds where there are Angels
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall -
LEARN FROM YESTERDAY, LIVE FOR TODAY, HOPE FOR TOMORROW
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