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| I conjured up this page for quotes, poems, random assortments of symbolic intentions...etc. Some are from me! and some are from a various assortment of other places. If anyone has anything good to post here send it to my yahoo email and I'll see what I can do. Enjoy -Peace and Love- |
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| " When we are not physically starving we have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation." Cherrie Moraga, 1979 |
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| There is no suitable expression for the taste of a grape, or the sounds in a voice. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Entry1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal in your hand with the intention of throwing it at someone. You are the one being burned." -Buddha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "it turns out that it's not where but who you're with that really matters" --DMB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Love and compassion are the essence of all religion. All religions can learn from each other; the ultimate goal is to produce better human begins. Better human beings would be more tolerant, more compassionate, and less selfish." Ocean of Wisdom: Guidelines for Living the Dalai Lama |
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| "It's a big, bad world out there for a little strand of DNA. But a population will persist over time if, deep within the scattered genetics of its ranks, it is literally prepared for anything." Small Wonders--Barbara Kingsolver |
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| "Peace is always beautiful"--Walt Whitman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Entry 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "The Form is its own justification; it sustains itself, like God, by the fact that it exists. Poetry which idolises its object naturally gives it (that object) the attributes of deity, but to do it in this way is to destroy the simile, or make it incapable of its more serious functions." Seven Types of Ambiguity--William Empson |
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| "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it" The Color Purple--Alice Walker |
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| "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt" Abraham Lincoln |
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| "sometimes this kind of story turns out to be something more, some glimpse of life that expands like those Japanese paper balls you drop in water, and they bloom into flowers--and the flower is so marvelous you can't believe there was a time all you saw in front of you was a paper ball and a glass of water" film Adaptation, (supposedly excerpted from The Orchid Thief) |
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| Entry Three--Adaptation excerpt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Perception is immediate"--Immanuel Kant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Life consists with wildness. The most alive is wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him" -Walking (1862) Henry David Thoreau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "...in a world where what we want is what we want until it's ours: I'm calling all angels. I'm calling all you angels." --Train | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go" T.S. Eliot | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Follow that will and that way which experience confirm to be your own" Carl Jung | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor...that the child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another" Nelson Mandela | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future Joseph Conrad |
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| "We are the music, while the music lasts." "We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time." T.S. Eliot |
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| "The most beautiful expreience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science" Albert Einstein | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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