February 2012
95 posts
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“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that...”
– Terence McKenna
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“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your...”
– Eckhart Tolle
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“What you seek is seeking you.”
– Rumi
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“Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our...”
– Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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“Maybe tonight you’re scared of falling, and maybe there’s somebody here or...”
– John Green
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“You are livin’,” she says in feigned exasperation. “You just don’t see what I...”
– A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League by Ron Suskind
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“Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it...”
– Clive Barker (Galilee)
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“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large —...”
– Walt Whitman
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“You kill death every day that you live.
And I do my best to murder hate...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Violent Peace
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“Learning how to transform mere ignorance into mystery, simple not knowing into...”
– Tim Kreider, “In Praise of Not Knowing” for the NYT
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“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”
– E.E. Cummings
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“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous...”
– E.E. Cummings
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“Is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a...”
– Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe
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“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you’re not here, I...”
– Rumi
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“How you deal with life’s trials is part of the development of your faith. ...”
– Russel M Nelson
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“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in...”
– René Descartes
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“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live...”
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
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“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in...”
– Rumi
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“The way of peace is a soul journey… . If you can live from the level of your...”
– Deepak Chopra
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“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has...”
– C.S. Lewis
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“Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world...”
– Chogyam Trungpa
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“To move the world we must first move ourselves.”
– Socrates
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“The lightning has shown me the scars of the future.”
– W. S. Merwin, from “The Nails”
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“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when...”
– Mary Oliver
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“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination...”
– August Wilson
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“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
– E.E. Cummings
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“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and...”
– Mary Oliver
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“The earth laughs in flowers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive...”
– Haruki Murakami
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“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but...”
– Rabindranath Tagore
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“People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the...”
– Salma Hayek
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“You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life...”
– Paulo Coelho (By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)
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“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that,
and I intend to end up there....”
– Rumi
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“We’re all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take...”
– Libba Bray
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“Today I affirm that there is nothing in me but love. This love comes from total...”
– Jackson Kiddard
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“Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be...”
– William Faulkner
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“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
– Dr. Seuss
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“There should be some lessons learned and how you can use the stuff you hear...”
– Randy Pausch
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“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”
– Anaïs Nin
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“The test of an adventure is that when you’re in the middle of it, you say to...”
– Thornton Wilder
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“I am different. And I don’t understand exactly how. And I don’t understand just...”
– Ellen Hopkins
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“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers
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“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart?...”
– Patrick Rothfuss