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Lurit (
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03.18.06 (8:59 am)
"Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you."
It's from a fortune cookie. Haha :)
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katesykate (
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03.18.06 (11:27 am)
I like so many...here's a few "Give without remembering and take without forgetting"..."Footfalls echo in the memory. Down the passage which we did not take...towards the door we never opened...into the ROSE GARDEN" - T.S. Elliott...here's another one "You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved and you will never understand what pain really is, until you have lost it"...
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inkspector (
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03.18.06 (12:56 pm)
DeathbyGlitter -- never heard that one but it is funny.
Lurit -- That sounds like a great find in a fortune cookie, no wonder you remember it.
Katesykate -- very introspective!
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ggirl (
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03.20.06 (5:03 am)
Okay, not the most cheerful of quotes, but this is it.
"...courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair." ~ Rollo May,
Thanks for the comment re Dunder Mifflin. I work for a guy who's frighteningly similar to Michael.
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03.22.06 (11:45 pm)
"A place for everything and everything in its place." Is that a quote? I just really like it, and this one too, "Waste not, want not."
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supremeanna (
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03.22.06 (11:46 pm)
"A place for everything and everything in its place." Is that a quote? I just really like it, and this one too, "Waste not, want not." Thanks for your suggestions about diamonds...you make a good point! I should buy myself one...now, must find job to pay for it :)
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surrogate (
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post date:
08.08.06 (4:20 am)
"I'm so misserable without you, it's almost like you're here." -Willy Nelson.
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inkspector (
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post date:
08.08.06 (6:17 am)
Reply to: surrogate
Thanks for sharing that one! LOL
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kamakazeekenny (
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post date:
08.19.06 (8:02 pm)
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Gandhi
I enjoy quotes & shall send more later
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inkspector (
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08.19.06 (8:11 pm)
Reply to: kamakazeekenny
Thanks for posting that one, I had not thought of it in a while.
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kamakazeekenny (
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post date:
08.20.06 (6:05 pm)
Much may be learned about any society by studying the behavior and accepted ideas of its children, for children - and sometimes adults - are shadows of their parents, and what they believe and what they do are often what their parents believe in their hearts and would do if society would put up with it. - Robertson Davies (from 'What's Bred in the Bone')
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inkspector (
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08.20.06 (6:58 pm)
Reply to: kamakazeekenny
That is EXCELLENT!!! Thanks so much!
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inkspector (
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post date:
08.25.06 (9:21 am)
Had to put this quote here as found in SayCheese's blog posted by kamakazeekenny:
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison
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doeeyed (
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post date:
09.19.06 (6:16 am)
If you think you are too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito--Anita Roddick
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akelso (
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post date:
10.28.06 (5:44 pm)
If the Christian nations
were nations of Christians
we'd have no more war.
- song, "No More War"
sung by Ronny Elliott
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"We can bomb the world to pieces,
but we can't bomb it into peace."
Michael Franti,
"Bomb the World"
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"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass
is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian Rug."
- Helen Keller
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Two termites walk into a bar. One asks, "Is the bar tender here?"
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Prayer does not use up artificial energy,
doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute.
Neither does song, neither does love,
neither does the dance.
- Margaret Mead
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Inside this clay jar there are meadows and groves
and the One who made them.
Inside this jar there are seven oceans and innumerable stars,
acid to test gold, and a patient appraiser of jewels.
Inside this jar the music of eternity,
and a spring flows from the source of all waters.
Kabir says: Listen, friend! My beloved Master lives inside.
- Kabir,
(translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass)
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"Once you can accept the universe
as matter expanding into nothing that is something,
wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
- Albert Einstein
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I often think that the night is more alive
and more richly colored than the day.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied,
"To hell, for that's where help is needed most."
- Philip Kapleau
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"If we are to keep our democracy,
there must be one commandment:
'Thou shalt not ration justice.' "
- Learned Hand, (1872 - 1961)
U.S. Federal Court Judge
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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"Heredity colours the eyes: Environment puts the light in them."
- Eleanor Dumont Thompson
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The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpots
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"Harboring resentment's like taking poison
and waiting for the other guy to die."
- Bill Clinton
(paraphrasing Malachi McCort)
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"God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire
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"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children."
- Native American Proverb
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"Did you know...that when you walk past a flower,
whether it be in somebody's garden or on a vacant hillside,
the flower will always smile at you.
The most polite way to respond, I've been told,
is to cheerfully return the smile."
- Ron Atchison
Inspiration Peak
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Magic is essentially an intellectual art form.
- Raymond Joseph Teller, magician
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost.
That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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When we long for life without... difficulties,
remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds,
and diamonds are made under pressure.
- Peter Marshall
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Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.
- ML King, Jr.
"I've Been to the Mountain Top"
(4/3/68)
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Fairy tales are more than true:
not because they tell us that dragons exist,
but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
- G.K. Chesterton
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Life isn't one straight line.
Most of us have to be transplanted,
like a tree, before we blossom.
- Louise Nevelson
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The older you get, the more you learn to see
what you've been taught to see.
When you're a kid, you see what's there.
- Steven Wright
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*Want* is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus,
opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky.
But *needs*, from one day to the next,
are few enough to fit in a bucket,
with room enough left to rattle
like brittlebush in a dry wind.
- Barbara Kingsolver
(from "High Tide in Tucson", 1995.)
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"Blessed are they who have vision enough to behold a guiding star
in the dark mystery which girdles the earth;
blessed are they who have imagination enough to detect
the music of celestial voices in the midnight hours of life;
blessed are they who have faith enough to contemplate
a world of peace and justice in the midst of present wrong and strife."
- The Rev. Dr. David Rhys Williams (1890-1970)
from "We Speak of Life"
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs
as clothes do against cold.
For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases,
it will have no power to hurt you.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Our inner life is like a flame. What we need
is a safe way to burn the logs.
- Ira Progoff
posted by:
akelso (
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post date:
10.28.06 (5:57 pm)
Somehow I've lost track of my all time favorite:
"A kept dollar is a stinking fish."
- Andrew Carnegie
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akelso (
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post date:
10.28.06 (6:01 pm)
Reply to: kamakazeekenny
Yes, I'll collect that one! Thanks. - Andrea
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mimi (
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post date:
10.29.06 (3:37 am)
"When visiting a friend's house, should you get a little rumbly in your tumbly, try looking wistfully in the direction of the cupboards"
Winnie the Pooh
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inkspector (
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post date:
10.29.06 (5:29 am)
Reply to: akelso
WOW! Thanks for sharing all those. I think I can use a few and incorporate them into some art work!
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inkspector (
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post date:
10.29.06 (5:30 am)
Reply to: mimi
The Winnie the Pooh quote is adorable.
Thanks for sharing.
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akelso (
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post date:
10.29.06 (6:21 am)
Reply to: mimi
Love it! Milne was tenderly brilliant. - Andrea
posted by:
akelso (
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post date:
10.29.06 (6:24 am)
Reply to: inkspector
Is your work viewable somewhere? (Might be asking a dumb question ...)
- Andrea
posted by:
doeeyed (
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post date:
11.11.06 (2:28 pm)
Life is sexually transmitted.
posted by:
inkspector (
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post date:
12.20.06 (2:09 pm)
A few more I found --
"Do or Do not, there is no try" -Master Yoda
"Be the change you wish to see in the world"-Gahndi
"Only when the last tree has died
and the last river been poisoned
and the last fish been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money" -Cree Proverb
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain
"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance."- Samuel Johnson
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inkspector (
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post date:
12.25.06 (10:16 am)
I was just reading Appletree's blog with the happiness quotes and picked these as my favorites from her list.
Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful. ~ Irving Cristol
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~ Chinese proverb
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
~ Edmund Spencer, The Faerie Queen
The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up. ~ Mark Twain
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars. ~ Henry Van Dyke
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inkspector (
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post date:
12.25.06 (10:37 am)
Posted this as a separate entry 12/25/06 but putting it here to add to the list.
Here are some thoughtful Christmas sentiments.
May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; the spirit of Christmas which is peace; the heart of Christmas which is love.
- Ada V. Hendricks
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
- Washington Irving
Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself.
- Norman W. Brooks, “Let Every Day Be Christmas"
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
- Calvin Coolidge
Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance-a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
- Augusta E. Rundel
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burcu (
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post date:
01.04.07 (3:35 pm)
In the midst of winter, there lay within me an invincible summer~Albert Camus
posted by:
inkspector (
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post date:
01.08.07 (3:24 pm)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
In the Midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. ~ Deepak Chopra
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. ~ Leo Burnett
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are. ~ Earl Mac Rauch, from "Buckaroo Bansai"
Angels do find us in our hour of need. ~ Amy Huffman
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. ~ Anton Chekov
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inkspector (
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post date:
01.14.07 (3:53 pm)
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ~ Mark Twain
It is not true that we have only one life to live: if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ~ S. I. Hayakawa
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~ Chinese Proverb
After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. ~ Chinese Proverb
A book holds a house of gold. ~ Chinese Proverb
A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood. ~ Chinese Proverb
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inkspector (
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post date:
01.14.07 (3:56 pm)
Quotes by Confucious (Kung Zi (551 B.C. - 479 B.C)
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Aspire to the principle, behave with virtue, abide by benevolence, and immerse yourself in the arts.
posted by:
inkspector (
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post date:
01.15.07 (4:42 pm)
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. ~ Germaine Greer
posted by:
inkspector (
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post date:
01.16.07 (2:56 pm)
The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest. ~ Albert Einstein
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inkspector (
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post date:
01.18.07 (12:36 pm)
The people who laugh at you probably admire you the most. ~ unknown
A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure. ~ unknown
Some of the most significant moments in your life happen without you even knowing it. ~ Alvin Law
"Stay" is a charming word in a friends vocabulary. ~ Louisa May Alcott
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inkspector (
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post date:
01.20.07 (8:31 am)
Time sets the stage;
Fate writes the script;
but only we may choose our character. ~ Liam Thomas Ryder
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. ~ Michael Pritchard
Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere. ~ Unknown
Only you can be yourself. No else is qualified for the job. ~ Unknown
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. ~ Danny Kaye
I am an artist... I am here to live out loud. ~ Emile Zola
It's never too late to be who you might have been. ~ George Eliot
A good friend knows the song in your heart and can sing it back when you forget the words. ~ Unknown
Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly. ~ Unknown
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship. ~ Louisa May Alcott
We don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. ~ Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~ Ray Bradbury
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inkspector (
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post date:
01.20.07 (8:34 am)
Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person. ~ unknown
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inkspector (
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post date:
01.26.07 (9:34 am)
One good teacher outweighs a ton of books. ~ Chinese Proverb
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~ St. Augustine
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inkspector (
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post date:
02.05.07 (3:31 pm)
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. ~ Arnold Lobel
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. ~ Victor Borge
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. ~ Henry David Thoreau
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. ~ Jimmy Buffett
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~ Robert Frost
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inkspector (
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post date:
02.16.07 (8:30 am)
Where there is great love, there are always wishes. ~ Willa Cather
posted by:
inkspector (
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post date:
03.04.07 (9:36 am)
Quotes by Wordsworth --
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
Small service is true service, while it lasts.
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
posted by:
inkspector (
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post date:
03.05.07 (9:23 pm)
To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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appletree (
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post date:
05.05.07 (12:28 am)
I love to read about quotes. I think they teach me a lot especilly when I feel down.
I have many quotes in my heart. One of them is "Action Speaks Louder Than Words!" It is always classic and I love it:)
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inkspector (
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post date:
08.11.07 (5:45 pm)
A room without a book is like a body without a soul. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
posted by:
inkspector (
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post date:
08.23.07 (1:56 pm)
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. ~ Nelson Mandela
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inkspector (
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post date:
10.02.07 (8:43 pm)
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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inkspector (
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01.16.08 (11:09 am)
Happy are those who find wisdom, and those who get understanding, for her income is better than silver, and her revenue better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy. ~ anon
(That is an overall interperatation of Proverb 31:10-31 -- see my blog entry Jan 08 for more on this Proverb.)
