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“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.”


Clarence Darrow

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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
 
Abraham Lincoln 

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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.  ~Moshe Dayan

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“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”

~John Greenleaf Whittier

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I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.  ~Carl Jung

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“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
 
Carl Jung 

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“May there always be work for your hands to do, may your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine on your windowpane, may a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.”

- Irish Blessing

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“Om sarveshaam swastir bhavatu
Sarveshaam shantir bhavatu Sarveshaam poornam bhavatu
Sarveshaam mangalam bhavatu Sarve bhavantu sukhinah
Sarve santu niraamayaah Sarve bhadraani pashyantu
Maakaschit duhkha bhaag bhavet”                                                
                                                (Vedic Peace prayer)
Auspiciousness (swasti) be unto all; peace (shanti) be unto all;
fullness (poornam) be unto all; prosperity (mangalam) be unto all.
May all be happy! (sukhinah)
May all be free from disabilities! (niraamayaah)
May all look (pashyantu)to the good of others!
May none suffer from sorrow! (duhkha)

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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anais Nin

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“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.” Sarah Ban Breathnach

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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
that's so true…
413 again!

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“A painter paints pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”


  ~Leopold Stokowski

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Perhaps less beautiful, but nevertheless appropo.

”Give me liberty or give me death.”

- Patrick Henry

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Thanks, good to have more people joining in this thread!


“People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive.  It is as though they were traveling abroad.”


  ~Marcel Proust

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Silence

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“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.” Gloria Naylor quotes

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“Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side.”


  ~The Talmud

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“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.”


Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

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“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy
Eskimo Proverb quote

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“We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.” Mark Twain 

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“One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.” Kahlil Gibran

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“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.” Anne Lamott 

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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore

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'Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me.
The Carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality”

~Emily Dickinson

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life.  A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.  ~Mark Twain

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“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”  


~Seneca

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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.  ~German Proverb

beautiful pic and quote Nicole

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thanks, Tai, you always find such great quotes too.


“Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. “ 


~Albert Laighton

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This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. 
Francis Bacon 

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“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think.  Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.  


~A.A. Milne

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“Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.”


 A. A. Milne quote

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“And by and by Christopher Robin came to an end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.”

A. A. Milne
The House at Pooh Corner

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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
A. A. Milne

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“You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.”

A. A. Milne
The House at Pooh Corner

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““When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what's the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What's for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet. 
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
“It's the same thing,” he said.”

 
 A. A. Milne quotes

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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
A. A. Milne

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Mowgli: I never knew where I came from. But I always knew where I belonged.

from The Jungle Book

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that's a nice quote! *likes this*

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“Intellect devoid of spirt, dark shadows from tall steeples, all we need is love divine, hearts celebrating people. Can grace be weakened, out of reach? The global village needs us. To stand and walk into the breach with the same dove that fed Jesus!”

Gibran is fun to play with. Dawn : “Once upon, when time was naught, I Am transcended complex thought. If the void is not 'to be' all creation must be free. Infinite density births inflation. Seen as pure chaos from afar? Heaven rtejoices with adulation. “My God, It's full of stars.”

Is it a shame that the 'path of the night' is actually ignorance? Or is ignorance a blessing when dawn shines upon it?  lol

FYI: I'm in the breach. District 29-B has a bible in the courtroom. Shame on them for littering.  There ought to be a law against such delinquent behavior. Wait a minute, there is one, the no establishment clause in the federal constitution. Praise the Lord!  lol

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Gibran is wonderful, yes…

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beautiful!

'Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.'
Wu-Men

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Change always comes bearing gifts.  ~Price Pritchett

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like puppy kisses on your nose? :P

i love your flower photo taiKwon!!

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“We are united now within these ancient wheels
We are united in the spirit of the music at our heels
And on reflection we rebuild and we restore
We are as mother nature’s children as we dance around the floor'

Dougie Maclean (lyrics from song All Together)

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yey! just like that Suni - thanks

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“everything has rhythm. everything dances.”

 
 Maya Angelou  ps there's a bunny hiding behind a petal Suni, can you see him, he's so pink!

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dance! as butterflies and bees upon the flowers!

um..i don't know if i am looking at the right ear looking thingy XD

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i agree! concerns bog us down like lead weights chained to our feet. you can move, sure, but it is harder to move forward with life chained by concerns!

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“Let us read and let us dance -

two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”  

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…and
To dance is to give oneself up to the rhythms of all life ~Dr. Maya V. Patel

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yes suni my dear, and joshua! great to see you always…


Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds.  A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. 


 ~William James

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love your picture joshua, so much movement and energy…

Hi suni, it's great having your energy here on the thread…

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. 
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ps I love pink!

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what a delightful Goethe that  is, dear Tai.


“To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it.” Timothy Childers

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Love is a choice you make from moment to moment….
Barbara de Angelis

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“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.”


Barbara de Angelis

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To fill the hour - that is happiness
Emerson