January 2012
12 posts
I’m happy to have you, if only for a small moment, not to remind me of emptiness, but to find the pieces of myself that I scattered atop mountains and at the bottom of the sea.
via http://singlebetty.blogspot.com/2012/01/youll-find-me-here.html
"A gentleman is simply a patient wolf."
- Lana Turner
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Mark Twain
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. And many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
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some MLK favorites
“When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact…that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We’ve learned to fly the air like birds, we’ve learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven’t learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters…”
“The potential...
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Elegance is the correct posture if the writing is to be perfect. It’s the same with life: when all superfluous things have been discarded, we discover simplicity and concentration. The simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be, even though, at first, it may seem uncomfortable. - Witch of Portobello
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December 2011
9 posts
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“walker, there is no path; the path is made by walking”
– Antonio Machado
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Robert Frost
So was I once myself a swinger of birches; And so I dream of going back to be. It’s when I’m weary of considerations, And life is too much like a pathless wood Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs Broken across it, and one eye is weeping From a twig’s having lashed across it open. I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it...
“To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do). Each of us must find our work and do it. Militancy no longer means guns at high noon, if it ever did. It means actively working for change, sometimes in the absence of any surety that change is coming. It...
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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty,...
Rumi
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The world has achieved brillance without wisdom, power without conscience. - General Omar Bradley
“You leave the commandment of God”, Jesus once told the scribes and Pharisees, “and hold fast the tradition of men” (Mark 7.8), and it is one of the needs of the day that more men learn to say what Gideon once said. He had saved them from the hosts of the Midian, and the...
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to worship
To lift up the heart to a Strength beyond all worldly strength and to a Wisdom greater than all earthly wisdom and to a Goodness transcending all human goodness; to recognize the need for every two to face a Third and to insist that every quarrel or debate be seen in the context of an everlasting righteousness; to have no fear save fear of God and to live so surely in God’s presence that no...
November 2011
15 posts
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Anaïs Nin - 5
The African jungle seems far less dangerous than complete trust in one love, than a place where one’s housework is more important than one’s creativity.
When I came out of the sea, I felt reborn. I longed for this simplified life. Cooking over a wood fire, sleeping out of doors in a hammock, with only a Mexican blanket. I longed for naked feet in sandals, the freedom of the body in...
“Caught by our own thoughts,
we worry about everything.
But once we get drunk...”
– Rumi (via sol-psych)
thatkindofwoman:
The Rural Alberta Advantage |...
“Afoot and lighthearted, I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before...”
– Walt Whitman. (via gazealongtheopenroad)
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O when shall we shake off the sloth that clothes itself with the pretence of humility, and yield ourselves wholly to God’s Spirit, that he may fill our wills with light and power, to know, and to take, and to possess all that our God is waiting to give to a will that lays hold on Him.
His mediation on the throne is as real and indispensable as on the cross.
-Andrew Murray
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Diana Vreeland
The only real elegance is in the mind. If you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.
“I think your imagination is your reality”
Diana Vreeland | Camera Ready →
October 2011
25 posts
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Fall
I wonder: If the branches could, would they reach out and catch the leaves and hold onto them until they’re all dried up? Carpe diem applies no matter the season, the trees whisper.
Fall is a time to let go of things you may have felt attached to.
Ideas that have worn old. Friends who don’t work anymore. It’s a time to reflect on where you’ve been then let go of the negative, let them drop by...
Don’t scold the Lover →
“She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the...”
– ― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
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“Ah, nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Chocolat
“Père Henri: I’m not sure what the theme of my homily today ought to be. Do I want to speak of the miracle of Our Lord’s divine transformation? Not really, no. I don’t want to talk about His divinity. I’d rather talk about His humanity. I mean, you know, how He lived His life, here on Earth. His kindness, His tolerance… Listen, here’s what I think. I think that we can’t go around… measuring our...
“i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the...”
– E.E. Cummings (via jerzee55)
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we...
