Just living is
not enough, said the butterfly. One must have freedom,
sunshine, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson - from James Hodge |
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A bit of fragrance always clings
to the hand who gives a rose.
Chinese proverb - from James Hodge |
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When we walk to the edge of all
the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we
must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something
solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.
Patrick Overton |
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There is a boundary to men's passions
when they act from feelings;
but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke - from Dawne Brown |
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Goodness is the only investment
that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau - from Ken Lizotte |
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You have learned something. That
always feels at first as if you had lost something.
H. G. Wells from Susan Dunn |
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But a handful of pine-seed will
cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face
to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.
Fiona Macleod - from Ivy Sea |
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I'm not trying to counsel any of
you to do anything really special except to dare to think, and to dare to
go with the truth, and to dare to really love completely.
R. Buckminster Fuller - from John Renesch |
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There are moments when the soul
takes wings: What it has to remember, it remembers; What it loves, it loves
still more; What it longs for, to that it flies.
Fiona MacLeod (a.k.a. William Sharp) - from Jamie Walters |
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If you will not fight for the right
when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your
victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when
you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious
chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when
there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live
as slaves.
Winston Churchill - from James Hodge |
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No profit grows where is no pleasure
taken; in brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Shakespeare - from Darlene Pineda |
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I like to walk alone on country
paths, rice plants and wild grasses on both sides,
putting each foot down on the earth in mindfulness,
knowing that I walk on the wonderous earth.
In such moments, existence
is a miraculous and mysterious reality.
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.
But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin
air,
but to walk on earth.
Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize:
a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves,
the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes.
All is a miracle.
The real miracle is not to walk on water or in thin air,
but to walk on earth.
Thich Nhat Hanh - from Spiritwalk
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