April 2012
110 posts
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This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the...
– Victoria Lincoln
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Must love decorating for holidays, mischief, kissing in cars, and wind chimes....
– Matthew Gray Gubler, on his perfect woman.
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Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing...
– Jessica Hische
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I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and...
– Audre Lorde
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The venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t want to...
– John Green
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I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a...
– Henry Rollins
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Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a...
– Rumi
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We’re all just walking each other home.
– Ram Dass
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
– Looking for Alaska, John Green
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I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because...
– C.S. Lewis
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A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but...
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Today, give yourself permission to be outrageously kind, irrationally warm,...
– Sasha Dicter, of Acumen Fund, on Generosity Day
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your...
– Joseph Campbell
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Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move...
– Alan Paton
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Considerable self-confidence was an understatement. People knew when he entered...
– Mark Pendergrast in Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service on the CDC’s Alexander Langmuir, Creator of the EIS
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Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is...
– Gary Zukav
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I believe that chance creates order in the world. We can’t choreograph...
– Maria Mayo Robbins, This I Believe II
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This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust...
– Brian Andreas
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There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything,...
– C.S. Lewis
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What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to...
– African Proverb
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Let’s not beat around the bush; I love life — that’s my real weakness. I love it...
– Albert Camus, The Fall
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I am leaning back and running with it and staring at the stars and I’m eleven,...
– Bryan Lee O’Malley
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There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one...
– Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
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You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Nor...
– Jesus
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If I could give you one key, and one key only to more abundant life, I would...
– Greta Crosby
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Speak a new language
so that the world
will be a new world.
– Rumi
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Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry
– Muriel Rukeyser
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and...
– Anton Chekhov. About Love and Other Stories
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Saying ‘I notice you’re a nerd’ is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather...
– John Green
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I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of...
– Anaïs Nin
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Coincidences are God’s way of getting our attention.
– Frederick Buechner
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We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a...
– Stephen R. Covey
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Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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Travel takes control away from us, exposing our weakest points. We are acutely...
– Steve Zikman
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So a visionary’s best defense… is not only having a thick skin, but...
– Bill Shore, The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men
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Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.
– Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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It is not enough merely to seek greatness for ourselves, we must help others...
– First Lady Michelle Obama
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If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world,...
– Andrew Harvey, The Return of the Mother
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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to...
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like...
– Salman Rushdie
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
– Margaret Atwood
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
– ee cummings
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Find what you love and let it kill you.
– Charles Bukowski
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You couldn’t handle my undivided attention.
– Dwight Schrute (The Office)
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There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey...
– Pablo Neruda, Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 1971
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
– E.B. White
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To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all...
– Garth Stein
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Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
– Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981
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You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and...
– Brene Brown