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Last night the rain spoke to me slowly, saying, what joy to come falling out of the brisk cloud, to be happy again in a new way on the earth! That’s what it said as it dropped, smelling of iron, and vanished like a dream of the ocean into the branches and the grass below. Then it was over. The sky cleared. I was standing under a tree. The tree was a tree with happy leaves, and I was myself, and there were stars in the sky that were also themselves at the moment at which moment my right... Mary Oliver
Rudyard Kipling quote: "Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own..."
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. Rudyard Kipling
Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much. Suzanne Collins
Neil Gaiman quote: "We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that..."
We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable. Neil Gaiman
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing your own... Elizabeth Gilbert
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. Fulton J. Sheen
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps. Carl Sagan
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace"
Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace Thomas Jefferson
Dag Hammarskjold quote: "Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our..."
Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known. Dag Hammarskjold
This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see. Corrie Ten Boom
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put..."
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. Barbara Kingsolver
The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness. Christopher Hitchens
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. Ursula K. Le Guin
Martin Luther quote: "To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins..."
To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing. Martin Luther
I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars? Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good... Ernest Hemingway

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