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Post by Tamrin on Feb 19, 2014 7:10:26 GMT 10
The heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of another’s fire... driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colours are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect
When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing
All we can do is go around telling the truthCarson McCullersAmerican novelist and playwright ( The Heart is a Lonely Hunter) (Born this day 1917) The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 19, 2014 7:11:12 GMT 10
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it
Sin is whatever obscures the soulAndré GideFrench author and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1947) (Died this day 1951) Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 19, 2014 7:11:59 GMT 10
While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward
You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying
I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever
I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside meAmy TanChinese-American writer ( The Joy Luck Club) (Born this day 1952) I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 19, 2014 7:12:41 GMT 10
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces
No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you
This sort of arrogant individualism which imagines each new generation can somehow create the world afresh
The whole bloody world's got a commitment problem. It's the three-minute culture. It's a global attention-span deficit
It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it
Work — once merely an annoying nuisance — has become an agonizing torture
It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goalsHelen FieldingEnglish novelist and screenwriter ( Bridget Jones’s Diary) (Born this day 1958) I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 19, 2014 7:13:37 GMT 10
“The idea of the feudal system is that the people on the top take care of the needs of those on the bottom, but I have seldom seen it work that way," Wicked said. "Yeah," I said, "it's like trickle-down economics; it only works if the people at the top are really good, decent people. The system is only as good as the people in power”
I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others
Giving up at something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up
He wanted to feed the hunger of his skin. The hunger of his body not so much for orgasm but for that need to be held close and tight, that need we all have to press our nakedness against someone else's
A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were
I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if the pregnancy continues, or a rape victim, or even a teenager who made a mistake. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb
You cannot die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death Laurell Kaye HamiltonAmerican novelist ( Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter) (Born this day 1963) We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 20, 2014 8:22:37 GMT 10
Thursday’s Quotes:Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment
If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly
We Abolition Women are turning the world upside downAngelina GrimkeUS reformer, abolitionist, politician and lawyer (Born this day 1805) I am a mystery to myself
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 20, 2014 8:23:17 GMT 10
No man can become a saint in his sleep
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of loveHenry DrummondEnglish banker and religious leader (Died this day 1860) Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 20, 2014 8:25:01 GMT 10
Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means
The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning — ''enemies of society,'' as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so
The worst, the most corrupting of lies, are problems poorly statedGeorges BernanosFrench author and soldier ( The Open Mind) (Born this day 1888) Hope is a risk that must be run
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 20, 2014 8:26:50 GMT 10
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any peopleFrederick DouglassUS anti-slavery leader, escaped slave (Died this day 1895) It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 20, 2014 8:28:00 GMT 10
You don't take a photograph, you make it
A good photograph is knowing where to stand
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silenceAnsel AdamsAmerican photographer and environmentalist (Born this day 1902) There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept
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