"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."
"Let your boat of life be light,
"Thy friend has a friend,
"Pain isn't the truth. It's what mortals go through to find the truth."
"Drink champagne for defeats as well as for victories.
"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
"There is no such thing as inner peace.
"The best things said come last.
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted."
"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"
"I hate faces that have no questioning in them,
"All normal people should get wrought up now and then
"My only sketch, profile of Heaven is a large blue sky,
"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance;
"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing
"If a man speaks in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him,
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns.
"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead.
"No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place."
"Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles; it empties today of its strength."
"I am standing on the seashore.
"In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."
"We don't try to prove immortality so that we can believe in it.
"We ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem,
"Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons."
"Stop justifying selfishness because 'the world is a jungle.'
"It's always darkest before the dawn.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones."
"God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing."
"The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it;
"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
"Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you,
"Memory is the power to gather roses in winter."
"High up in the North, in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock.
For BW! ;-)
"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all we might have achieved,
"Let us endeavor to live so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry."
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~ unknown
packed with only what you need,
a homely home and simple pleasures,
one or two friends worth the name,
someone to love you,
a dog, a cat and a pipe or two,
enough to eat and enough to wear
and a little more than enough to drink....
for thirst is a dangerous thing."
~ Jerome K. Jerome, 'Three Men in a Boat,' 1887
and thy friend's friend has a friend;
be discreet."
~ The Talmud
~ Deepak Chopra
'The Way of the Wizard'
It tastes the same, and you need it more."
~ Edmund Ward
~ Lewis Carroll
'Through the Looking Glass'
Only nervousness and death."
~ unknown
People will talk for hours saying nothing much
and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart."
~ Alan Alda
~ Aesop
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
'The Little Prince'
~ Steven Wright
no quest for wanting to learn more, look at more, see more, BE more!"
~ Maria Tallchief
over the fact that there are wild orchids in Brazil they may never see,
and temple bells in Mandalay that they may never hear,
and beautiful Balinese maidens and incredible Tibetan lamasaries
that they are likely to miss altogether."
~ Marjorie Hillis
larger than the biggest I have seen in June ~
and in it are my friends ~ all of them ~ every one of them."
~ Emily Dickinson
they make the latitudes and longitudes."
~ Henry David Thoreau
and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without comment."
~ Theodore H. White
is he still wrong?"
~ from a tshirt
By the way, the correct answer is "YES." ;-)~
Then give up. There's no use in being a damn fool about it."
~ W.C. Fields
I am thankful thorns have roses."
~ Alphone Korr
Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow.
Do not walk beside me, either.
Just leave me the hell alone."
~ unknown
~ Zen saying
~ Mary Engelbreit
A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean.
I stand watching her until she fades on the horizon,
and someone at my side says, 'She is gone.'
Gone where?
The loss of sight is in me, not in her.
Just at the moment when someone says, 'She is gone,"
other voices take up the glad shout, 'Here she comes,'
and that is Dying."
~ Henry Scott Holland
~ David Ben Gurion
We try to prove it because we can't help believing in it."
~ Norman Vincent Peale
and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
~ Goethe
~ Ann Ruth Schabacker
It can also be a garden, depending on whether one wants to plant and water,
or plunder and uproot."
~ Sydney J. Harris
So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it."
~ unknown
~ Proverbs 17:22
~ Rabindranath Tagore
if you can't ignore it, top it;
if you can't top it, laugh at it;
if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved."
~ Russell Lynes
~ Charles Lindbergh
and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you,
and brace themselves against you?
Or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?"
~ Walt Whitman
~ unknown
It is 100 miles high and 100 miles wide.
Once every 1000 years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak.
When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by."
~ Hendrick William VanLoon
'The Story of Mankind'
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
~ Benjamin Franklin
of all the gifts we have wasted,
of all that we might have done which we did not do."
~ unknown
~ Mark Twain
a set of traditional Irish jigs.
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Ireland.
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