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If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or
       burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in
       silence, what wonder and expectation there would be
       in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.
                                                                  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'Morituri Salutamus,' 1875
US poet (1807 - 1882)

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O for a booke and a shady nooke, 
Either in-a-dore or out; 
With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, 
Or the street cries all about. 
Where I may rede all at my ease 
Both of the newe and olde; 
For a jolly good booke whereon to look 
Is better to me than gold 
— Old English Ryme

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A good book has no ending.  ~R.D. Cumming

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“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” 


~Toni Morrison

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There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.

Don Marquis

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…another nice one , Thank You Tai !…

-jagadish

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…Superb quote Nicole !!…

….yes, now at 61 , my life is filled with ' stars ' !!…

love & hugs

-jagadish

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

~Henri Nouwen

(both a beautiful and horrible picture…as it is both fitting and ironic with the quote)

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“The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity and held safe in an everlasting embrace… We must dare to opt consciously for our chosenness and not allow our emotions, feelings, or passions to seduce us into self-rejection.” 

Henri J. M. Nouwen
Nouwen Centre 

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“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.”

~Henri Nouwen

(I love creating collages)

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beautiful collage Alexa…


Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius

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For more about Rabi'a, see this article


“I have two ways of loving You:
A selfish one
And another way that is worthy of You.
In my selfish love, I remember You and You alone.
In that other love, You lift the veil
And let me feast my eyes on Your Living Face.”


Rabi'a Al-'Adawiyya

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Brothers, my peace is in my aloneness.
My Beloved is alone with me there, always.
I have found nothing in all the worlds
That could match His love,
This love that harrows the sands of my desert.
If I come to die of desire
And my Beloved is still not satisfied,
I would live in eternal despair.

To abandon all that He has fashioned
And hold in the palm of my hand
Certain proof that He loves me—
That is the name and the goal of my search.

Rabi'a Al-'Adawiyya

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To be able to say “I love you” one must first be able to say the “I”

Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

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There is also another idea, to unite the dark and the light, so that they won't fight with each other, but that there would be the subtlest friendly balance. But in order to solve this cosmic binary, the interference of the third power, the Divine power is required.
Konstantin Serebrov

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     Shades of grey wherever I go
The more that I found out the less that I know
Black and white is how it should be
But shades of grey are the colors I see

Billy Joel

haha…opposing points make me smile

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I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.  ~Author Unknown

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…oh ! Tai , are you pointing at me ?? !!…..hahaha…

…thanks for another nice quote from dear Tai ….

love & hugs

-jagadish

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Get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because your are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile you'll be cheerful because you smile.

~Kenneth Goode

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Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. 
~Norm Papernick

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“Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

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The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and despair, sadness and voluptuousness. The burning transcendence has something of the lightness of great purifications
Emile M Cioran

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 “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
 Rumi

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“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

Rumi

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“ I end in beginning, in ending I find 
that beginning is the first thing to do.”

 J Sutphen

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The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological.
If we look more deeply we can see it as the basis of an abstract idea
linking ourselves with the limitless mechanics of the universe.
-   Sir Geoffrey Jellico

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“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.”

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army'

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“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”


~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420


Image: Nightingale, David J.

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Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.

Dalai Lama

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…what a nice quote Tai , i specifically liked it as it applies to me well…

 …in fact some people here use to pity me

thinking i am a bit retarded or a little insane !!…

…now thanks to you  Tai , i got the answer !!…

love & hugs

-jagadish

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“Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy
of being No-one's sleep, under so
many lids.”

Rainer Maria Rilke


in memoriam, for our beloved  maxie who died in June.

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“Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, … we shall harness … the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire”

    ~TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

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“Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them… for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.”
 
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 

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Great to see you jagadish on the beautiful quotes thread, thanks for leaving such wonderful comments..
Good to see you here Tharlam, love the quote…
Beautiful quote Nicole, love the picture too…
Hugz Tai

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John Templeton

“Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth… Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it”

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To the Evening Star 

Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening,
Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light
Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown
Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!
Smile on our loves, and, while thou drawest the
Blue curtains of the sky, scatter thy silver dew
On every flower that shuts its sweet eyes
In timely sleep. Let thy west wind sleep on
The lake; speak silence with thy glimmering eyes,
And wash the dusk with silver. Soon, full soon,
Dost thou withdraw; then the wolf rages wide,
And the lion glares thro' the dun forest:
The fleeces of our flocks are cover'd with
Thy sacred dew: protect them with thine influence.


William Blake

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loving the William Blake…beautiful picture too Nicole

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“As we grow intimate with earth we realise what sweet and august things await humanity when it goes back to that forgotten mother. Who would be ambitious, who would wish to fling a name like Caesar's in the air, if he saw what thrones and majesties awaited the heavenly adventurer?”

Walt Whitman

(see this wonderful blog: A cathedral where altar and Presence are everywhere…)

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Advice from a Tree
By Ilan Shamir
Dear Friend,
Stand Tall and Proud
Sink your roots deeply into the Earth
Reflect the light of a greater source
Think long term
Go out on a limb
Remember your place among all living beings
Embrace with joy the changing seasons
For each yields its own abundance
The Energy and Birth of Spring
The Growth and Contentment of Summer
The Wisdom to let go of leaves in the Fall
The Rest and Quiet Renewal of Winter
Feel the wind and the sun
And delight in their presence
Look up at the moon that shines down upon you
And the mystery of the stars at night.
Seek nourishment from the good things in life
Simple pleasures
Earth, fresh air, light
Be content with your natural beauty
Drink plenty of water
Let your limbs sway and dance in the breezes
Be flexible
Remember your roots
Enjoy the view!

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Hi Tai ,
…nice & timely !
-jagadish

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that's cool jagadish - blessings to you
hugz Tai

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“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard”

    ~Anne Sexton

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“Love is the energy you resonate when I feel the fullness of your organism 
rising,
and bliss…”




Rumi

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi Quote

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“And where is my mind now that you have invaded me with your mind, 
of the remembered moments of quiet rounded stone?

I am…
unknown

For where the mirror shatters,
a window opens.”

Rumi - for the whole poem see: here

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Take the good until you find something better, and in search for something better do not let the good slip away from you or die out. If you disregard it despite its worth, and pursue something better, what you had escapes you; but if you remain attached to what is good, you will always have it if nothing better follows.
- Paracelsus

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….Hi Sarah, thanks for the insightful quote which has gone to my

' quote bank '- courtesy Sarah…

…'ve not heard of Paracelsus !…

….just 19 , but such a profound thought ! (turn your age upside down & that is my age - 61 , and 'am a proud father of  daughter of your age ! )…

BTW in your profile you say : ” I know more random facts than anyone else I know. “…how about sharing them all one at a time …you can find in me an eager reader !…
love

-jagadish

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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
Paracelsus

Great to see another new face on the thread TheRavenNevermore - beautiful name!

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“There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm. The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and in remembering, helps everyone else remember too.

To die inside, is to rob our outside life of any sense of arrival from that interior. Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.”

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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
Paracelsus

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“…gently
(very whiteness:absolute peace,
never imaginable mystery)
descend ”

E E Cummings

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“…gently
(very whiteness:absolute peace,
never imaginable mystery)
descend ”

E E Cummings

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    The divinest of things- religion, love, truth, beauty, justice - seem to lose their meaning and value when we sink into lassitude and indifference…
   It is a signal that we should quit meditation and books and go out into the open air, into the presence of nature, into the company of flocks and children, where we may drink new health and vigor from the clear and full-flowing fountains of life, afar from the arid wastes of theory and speculation; where we may learn again that it is not by intellectual questions, but by believing, hoping, loving, and doing that man finds joy and peace.
- John Lancaster Spalding