February 2012
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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