Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[JakeTulane]

“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together." - Anais Nin

[JakeTulane]

“What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.” - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“When all is said and done, you are part of me. That's the way it was meant to be. People are brought together for a reason, everything happens for a reason. I believe the reason that you and me were brought together was because we complete one another. We fill in each other's missing spots with love. And if someday God decides to tear us apart, I trust that there is a reason. Cause if there is a reason for love, there is a reason for life beyond it.” - Author Unknown

[JustLovelyJenn]

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
--Auguste Rodin

[JustLovelyJenn]

The only gift is a portion of thyself. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JustLovelyJenn]

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb

[JustLovelyJenn]

I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson

[Spirit Dancer]

Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens
instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience
and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise
never would have come to pass.
Boyd K. Packer

[Spirit Dancer]

To love someone is to always see them as the miracle that they are;
as the miracle that they exist, the miracle that makes your own
simultaneous existence seem fortunately improbable and therefore
defiantly miraculous; is to show them, in your eyes and through
the way in which you look at them, the limitless beauty of their
true miraculous selves; is to say to them in every glance:
"I believe in miracles because I believe in you."
Philip Jason

[Spirit Dancer]

Miracles rest not so much upon healing power coming suddenly
near us from afar, but upon our perceptions being made finer,
so that for the moment our eyes can see and our ears
can hear what has been there around us always.

Willa Cather

[Mister Bent]

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” Benjamin Franklin

“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom." Andre Gide

“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.” Voltaire

[JustLovelyJenn]

Truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
--Bob Marley

[violaine]

we travel together, passengers on a little spaceship dependent on its vulnerable supplies of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace, preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and I will say the love we give our fragile craft --
— Adlai Stevenson

a friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away --
— George Eliot

[Butterbean]

"Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."

~Kahlil Gibran

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[redrose]

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.
~Author Unknown

[Spirit Dancer]

I no longer feel that life is ordinary. Everyday life is filled with mystery.
The things we know are only a small part of the things we cannot know
but can only glimpse. Yet even the smallest of glimpses can sustain us.
Mystery seems to have the power to comfort, to offer hope, and to lend
meaning in times of loss and pain. In surprising ways it is the mysterious
that strengthens us in such times. I used to try to offer people certainty
in times which were not at all certain and could not be made certain.
I now just offer my companionship and share my sense of mystery,
of the possible, of wonder.

Rachel Naomi Remen

[Spirit Dancer]

Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up
your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,
but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready
for any seed the winds may bring.

Henri Frederic Amiel

[Spirit Dancer]

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
Jim Bishop

[Spirit Dancer]

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Roman Emperor

[Spirit Dancer]

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac
Greek orator & politician in Athens