December 2009
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“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable...”
– Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) (via hunsonisgroovy) (via quote-book)
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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering...”
– Laozi (Tao Te Ching) (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to...”
– John Irving (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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“My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always...”
– Albert Einstein (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book)
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“Books may well be the only true magic.”
– Alice Hoffman (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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“No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed...”
– Chuck Palahnuik, Invisible Monsters (via dirtyhumans)
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Too Many Too Soon
My friend’s 33 year old sister died today. She has 5 kids, the oldest of whom is 8 years old. She had lost a newborn in April and never recovered emotionally from the loss. She had just left her husband and moved with the kids from Connecticut to Maryland to start a new life near her family and away from the husband who blamed her for all of his problems. I remember a poem that I learned...
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“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
– Lou Holtz (via thresca) (via quote-book)
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“God determines who walks into your life….it’s up to you to decide who you let...”
– Robby May (via rainonthepane)
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“Going to church doesn’t make you any more a Christian than going to the garage...”
– Laurence Peter (via tranashley) (via quote-book)
amen.
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“I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can...”
– Yann Martel, Life of Pi (via johannal) (via quote-book)
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“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”
– C.S. Lewis (via julie911) (via quote-book)
“Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up...”
– Brittany Murphy (via julie911) (via quote-book)
Another one who is gone too soon…
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“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a...”
– Neil Gaiman (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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“The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There...”
– Margaret Nadauld (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with...”
– Maya Angelou (via quotewhore)
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“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this...”
– Dean Koontz (Fear Nothing)
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“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say,...”
– Dorothy Day
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“Grief can destroy you —or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all...”
– Dean Koontz (Odd Hours)
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Valentine for Ernest Mann
You can’t order a poem like you order a taco.
Walk up to the counter, say, “I’ll take two”
and expect it to be handed back to you
on a shiny plate.
Still, I like your spirit.
Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,
write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.
So I’ll tell you a secret instead:
poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes,
they...
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Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World
The eyes open to a blue telephone
In the bathroom of this five-star hotel.
I wonder whom I should call? A plumber,
Proctologist, urologist, or priest?
Who is most among us and most deserves
The first call? I choose my father because
He’s astounded by bathroom telephones.
I dial home. My mother answers. “Hey, Ma,
I say, “Can I talk to Poppa?” She gasps,
And then...
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Separation by WS Merwin
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
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“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture...”
– Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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“…Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy… censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.” —Robert A. Heinlein, -If This Goes On
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“It’s not denial. I’m just very selective about the reality I accept.”
– Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) (via hunsonisgroovy) (via quote-book)
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“When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to...”
– Mitch Albom, For One More Day (via julie911) (via quote-book)
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“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via julie911) (via quote-book)
“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
– Lemony Snicket (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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