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"It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?"
"But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan.
"Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund.
"I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there."
— C.S. Lewis (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader)

tags: aslan, narnia
126 people liked it

"He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion."
— C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

tags: aslan, lion
37 people liked it

"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you."
— C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)

tags: aslan, beaver, god
20 people liked it

"this is a book about something"
— C.S. Lewis (The Magician's Nephew)

tags: aslan, c-s-, christian, digory, fantasy, lewis, magician-s, narnia, nephew, polly
5 people liked it

"What happens to the drop of wine
That you pour into the sea?
Does it remain itself, unchanged?
It is as if it never existed.
So it is with the soul: Love drinks it in,
It is united with Truth,
Its old nature fades away,
It is no longer master of itself.

The soul wills and yet does not will:
Its will belongs to Another.
It has eyes only for this beauty;
It no longer seeks to possess, as was its wont--
It lacks the strength to possess such sweetness.
The base of this highest of peaks
Is founded on nichil,
Shaped nothingness, made one with the Lord."
— Jacopone Da Todi (The God-Madness)

tags: emptiness, light, zen
3 people liked it

""Here's another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We're going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don't think I'm going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I'm putting you on a light stand. Now that I've put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you'll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven. "
— Matthew 5:14-16

tags: bible, god, light, matthew-5-14-16
3 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,704 people liked it

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, perspective, science
1,029 people liked it

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: love
862 people liked it

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
— e.e. cummings

tags: death, life, poetry
374 people liked it

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"
— Mary Oliver (New and Selected Poems)

tags: poetry
240 people liked it

"You only live twice:
Once when you're born
And once when you look death in the face."
— Ian Fleming (You Only Live Twice)

tags: bond, death, james, philosophy, poetry
191 people liked it

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it is poetry."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: poetry
116 people liked it

"A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him."
— Dylan Thomas

tags: art, poetry, writing
80 people liked it

"It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me"
— Pablo Neruda (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition)

tags: neruda, poetry
68 people liked it

"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"
— Gustave Flaubert

tags: life, poetry
53 people liked it

"We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;"
— T.S. Eliot

tags: philosophy, poetry
33 people liked it

"...and death i think is no parenthesis"
— e.e. cummings (Cummings: Him)

tags: poetry
8 people liked it

""I'm at that place I grew up to leave." "
— Adrian C. Louis (Fire Water World: Poems)

tags: poetry
7 people liked it

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
— G.K. Chesterton (Alarms and Discursions)

tags: cheese, poetry
665 people liked it

"Te amo como se aman ciertas cosa oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.
(I love you as certain darks things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.)"
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

tags: love, poetry
381 people liked it

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
— Robert Frost

tags: poetry
209 people liked it

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on."
— John Keats

tags: music
79 people liked it

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
— John Keats

tags: art, life
54 people liked it

"Carpe diem. Seize the day."
— John Keats

tags: carpe-diem
52 people liked it

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination."
— John Keats

tags: imagination, love, truth
44 people liked it

"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'--that is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
— John Keats

tags: beauty, truth
33 people liked it

"Touch has a memory."
— John Keats

tags: memory, touch
23 people liked it

"Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not"
— John Keats

tags: art, beauty, poetry
18 people liked it

"Life is but a day:
A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way
From a trees summit"
— John Keats

tags: beauty, life, time
15 people liked it

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
— Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry
609 people liked it

"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
— T.S. Eliot

tags: apocalypse, despair, global-warming, poetry
109 people liked it

"Music is the universal language of mankind."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: music, poetry
125 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,796 people liked it

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: inspirational
784 people liked it

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: miracles
124 people liked it

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: grief, inspirational
106 people liked it

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."
— Rachel Carson

tags: inspiration, nature
89 people liked it

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