December 2011
16 posts
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m...”
– Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered...”
– Douglas Adams
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein
“Nothing is easy to the unwilling.”
– Thomas Fuller
Lines for Winter
maudlinsmile:
BY MARK STRAND
for Ros Krauss
Tell yourself
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself—
inside the dome of dark
or under the cracking white
of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow.
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
...
“sometimes i am a bit ashamed of myself when i think how few friends i have...”
– woodrow wilson
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“Don’t tell me the sky is the limit, there are footprints on the moon!”
– Brandt Paul
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“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
– Earl Nightingale
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“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
– Tom Clancy
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“My wisdom lies in having been many things and in many places in order to become...”
– NIETZSCHE
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“In depression you care about nothing. In sadness you care about everything.”
– Gloria Steinem
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“The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.”
– Nietzsche
Sonnet XVII
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
...
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“Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.”
– St. Jermone
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“Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the...”
– Marilyn Ferguson
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“There’s nothing wrong in making mistakes, what’s wrong is letting it stay as a...”