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"Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself, but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you." - Stewart E. White |
"Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are." - Thomas a Kempis |
" I had reached that zone of pain where riding was all there was; like all I had ever done was ride,all I would ever do is ride,and everything would be all right, if I just KEEP PEDALING" Anonymous
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Nemo me impune lacessit ! < --- No one provokes me with impunity !
"can someone help carry me over the next public house, I seem to have lost me legs at this one" MacDougal |
"All we are, basically, are monkeys with car keys." ~ Grandma Woody, "Northern Exposure"
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“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.” Wayne Dyer
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In my Inbox this morning
Written by a dear friend, for me, in response to one I sent her (my most recent 9 Words post):
in the evening cloud shadowed meadow of the brook whose source is unknown a woman dressed in tattered thread-web flowing rags stood swaying with the spires of grasses most of the passers-by on the road above ... the one that leads to the city … saw a beggar and a fool but the moon, the brook and i (i, whose heart has been broken by the kiss of God) beheld a solitary, a woman of the coven of the wind a woman who, as is known by the wanderers of the deserts, is a darvish, a madjub, a queen in beggars rags, a soul gifted with the banishment of those who are by birth forbidden to walk the road from town to town and must, therefore, live in the meadows of the moon where there is no path to define her way no sign to distract her view and only the nourishment of the brook whose source and destiny is unknowable |
In memory of PFC Christopher B. Fishbeck, killed yesterday in Iraq
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! ~Thomas ~William Parsons |
"What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be"
Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale) |
"We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups."
Margaret Atwood |
"I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone - and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?"
Margaret Atwood |
"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny."
- Anonymous |
"I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think or speak or write with moderation. I am in earnest-- I will not equivocate-- I will not excuse-- I will not retreat a single inch-- AND I WILL BE HEARD!" -William Lloyd Garrison
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi |
“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.” :floatbee:
Mary Kay Ash |
The opening line from one of my favorite films, Off the Map:
"The summer my father was depressed, the face of our lord Jesus Christ appeared on a tortilla at the Taos Junction Cafe." |
Madeleine L'Engle
"We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes."
also: "When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable." |
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew." - Saint Francis de Sales |
"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions." - William James |
"Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined." - Henry David Thoreau |
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