And then there are the quotes.
Little spaces for little words that shape and challenge your life.
Quotes for me have marked the seasons and the years.
These are the words that have inspired me most often.
These are the words I love best.....
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“For
his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"The world is grand, awfully big and
astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling."
- Dorothy Kilgallen
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“I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I
wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“For
all that has been, Thank you. For
all that is to come, Yes!”
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“May you live all the days of your life.”
-
Jonathan
Swift
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"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: 'Go down again - I dwell among the people."
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“Aslan
is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan.
"I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous
about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr. Beaver ..."Who
said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King,
I tell you.”
-
C.S. Lewis
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“I stood willingly and gladly in the
characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I
learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing
within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the
fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”
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“I
awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the
new.”
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“We were together. I forgot the rest.”
-
Walt
Whitman
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“When
it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the
bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”
-
Mary Oliver
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“My lifetime listens to yours”
- Muriel Rukeyser
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“…,a
marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving
the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing
each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”
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"Something we were withholding made us
weak,
Until we found it was
ourselves."
- Robert Frost
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"All things great are wound up with all things
little."
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"It has always seemed to me. ever since early
childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, I was very near to a kingdom of
ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it
quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the
enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made
life worthwhile.
– Lucy Maud Montgomery
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“It
would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are
half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when
infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making
mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a
holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis
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"Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted
to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone
or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky - up, up, up - into
that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And
then I'd just feel a prayer."
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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be
astonished. Tell about it.”
-
Mary
Oliver
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