Do you have a favorite poem or quote, or line?

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"The wound of words is worse than the wound of swords."
-- Saudi Arabian Proverb

"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."
-- Jessamyn West

 

[dekhqonbacha]

"People don't plan to fail. They fail to plan."

 

[dekhqonbacha]

"You never fail, until you stop trying."

 

[Outta here]

"All joys, pleasures and miseries have their origin in the mind. It is for each one of us to decide whether we wire ourselves for happiness or misery..."

"...... it is not others who are bothering you. It is only your own self wallowing in misery."

Joginder Singh

 

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Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latter deserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.

(Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Dec. 6, 1748, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl, Esq, 5th ed., vol. II, p. 112, London (1774).)
More quotations from: 4th Earl Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope

 

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Come, let's away to prison.
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage.
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too—
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out—
And take upon 's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out,
In a walled prison, packs and sects of great ones,
That ebb and flow by the moon.

(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British poet. King Lear (V, iii). to his daughter Cordelia when they are taken prisoners. OHFP. The Unabridged William Shakespeare, William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, eds. (1989) Running Press.)
More quotations from: William Shakespeare

 

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Call To The Four Sacred Winds
By Spirit Wind (Pat Poland)



I call to the East, where the Father ascends
to all Mother Earth where life begins.
I fly through the cedars, pines, willows, and birch
as animals below me wander and search.

I call to the South, to the land down below.
Turtle stands silent, as man strings his bow
to hunt food and fur for his kin before snow.
A life will end so others will grow.

I call to the North, that yansa once knew.
I follow their path til it disappears from view.
Once vast in number, there stand but a few.
I hear only ghost thunder of millions of hooves.

I call to the West, to the ends of the lands,
to the Tsalagi, Kiowa, Comanche ... all bands.
Unite for the strength. Teach the young and demand
that you are Native Americans. Learn your tongue and stand.

My name is Freedom... I fly through this land.
I call to the Four Sacred Winds of Turtle Island.

 

[selfactivated]

"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."
-- Jean de La Fontaine

 

[selfactivated]

"Thousands of candles
can be lighted from a single candle,
and the life of the candle
will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared."
-- Buddha

 

[selfactivated]

"The human story does not always unfold
like a mathematical calculation on the principle
that two and two make four.
Sometimes in life they make five or minus three;
and sometimes the blackboard topples down
in the middle of the sum
and leaves the class in disorder
and the pedagogue with a black eye."
-- Winston Churchill

 

[selfactivated]

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882),

 

[gc]

"If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours"

-Author unknown

 

[selfactivated]

"If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours"

-Author unknown

“In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

 

[maepaulino]

here's a quote...

'Tis better to try and to fail than to fail to try and forever experience the inestimable loss of what might have been.

and

I shall pass through this road but once, any good that I can do, or kindness that I can show, let me do it now for I shall never pass this way again.

 

[MattUK]

"The known is finite, the unknown is infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land." - T.H. Huxley, 1887.

 

[selfactivated]

“Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself”

 

[selfactivated]

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran

 

[Said1]

I'm pretty sure Martin Luther King jr said this, I love it anyway. It goes something like this 'we ain't what we oughtta be, we ain't what we wanna be, but thank God we ain't what we was'. Simple, to the point an no need for a dictionary.

 

[Said1]

And one more 'be the person your dog thinks you are'. My dog is rude to me sometimes, so I'm not so sure how literal I want to take this.

 

[Sassylassie]

Robert Frost, one of my favs.

No orchard's the worse for the winteriest storm;
But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm,
"How often already you're had to be told, Keep cold young orchard, goodbye and keep cold.
Dread fifty above more than fity below"
I have to gone be for a season or so.

I wish I could promise to lie in the night and think of an Orchards' arboreal plight.
When slowly (and nobody comes with a light) Its heart sinks lower under ths sod.
But something has to be left to God.
"Good bye and keep cold".