My Favorite Quotes

Mark Strand

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.​
 
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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

~ Kahlil Gibran
 
Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness and contentment
are great beautifiers, and are famous
preservers of youthful looks.​
 
Some people think pride is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that
 
Henry David Thoreau

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
 
Joyce Kilmer "Joy"

The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.​
 
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology,
is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

~ Eckhart Tolle

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Elizabeth Ross

People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if they are lit from within.
 
I do believe anger is offset by sorrow.
What you destroy today, you might regret tomorrow
When you're young and defensive,
it comes off as offensive.
And it's hard to repay the tolerance that you borrow.
 
a little sincerity is a dangerous thing - oscar wilde. (the exact wording i'm unsure of)
 
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

~ Louis L'Amour
 
What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from
that leaping. I’ve lived too long where I can be reached.

~ Rumi
 
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

~ Jay Leno
 
Alfred Tennyson

Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace!
Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,
While the stars burn, the moons increase,
And the great ages onward roll.​
 
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