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Poppies
by Mary Oliver The poppies send up their orange flares; swaying in the wind, their congregations are a levitation of bright dust, of thin and lacy leaves. There isn't a place in this world that doesn't sooner or later drown in the indigos of darkness, but now, for a while, the roughage shines like a miracle as it floats above everything with its yellow hair. Of course nothing stops the cold, black, curved blade from hooking forward— of course loss is the great lesson. But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive. Inside the bright fields, touched by their rough and spongy gold, I am washed and washed in the river of earthly delight— and what are you going to do— what can you do about it— deep, blue night? http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/p...aupoem142.html |
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.
~H. Fred Dale |
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
~Marcelene Cox |
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” - Aristotle |
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” - Robert Heinlein |
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life” - Aphra Behn |
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha
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“Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think."
Guy Lombardo |
"If you could understand crazy, it wouldn't be crazy."
From Splice |
The world is new to us every morning - this is G-d's gift; and every man should believe he is reborn each day. -Baal Shem Tov- :wine: |
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"You ain't lived 'til you've had your tires rotated
By a red-headed woman, a red-headed woman." - Bruce Springsteen |
"The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware - joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
~Henry Miller |
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha |
I cannot sleep in your prescence. In your absence, tears prevent me. You watch me My Beloved On each sleepless night and Only You see the difference - Rumi |
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
~Confucius |
To have life more abundant, we must think in the limitless terms of abundance.
~ Thomas Dreier |
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not." — Dr. Seuss, from The Lorax |
There is no substitute for athletics.
Robert F. Kennedy |
Think of all the beauty thats still left in and around you and be happy! ~ Anne Frank
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