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  • #1
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #2
    E.B. White
    “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    E.B. White

  • #3
    Mae West
    “I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
    Mae West

  • #4
    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
    Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

  • #5
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    John A. Shedd

  • #6
    Gautama Buddha
    “There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
    Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

  • #7
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #8
    Max Ehrmann
    “With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
    it is still a beautiful world.
    Be cheerful.
    Strive to be happy.”
    Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

  • #9
    Nisargadatta Maharaj
    “It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.”
    Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  • #10
    Nora Roberts
    “Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....”
    Nora Roberts, The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex

  • #11
    Pablo Neruda
    “my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
    but
    I shall go on living.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #12
    Pablo Neruda
    “Sonnet XVII

    I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
    or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
    I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

    I love you as the plant that never blooms
    but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
    thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
    risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

    I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
    I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
    so I love you because I know no other way than this:

    where I does not exist, nor you,
    so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
    so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. ”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #13
    Pablo Neruda
    “Here I came to the very edge
    where nothing at all needs saying,
    everything is absorbed through weather and the sea,
    and the moon swam back,
    its rays all silvered,
    and time and again the darkness would be broken
    by the crash of a wave,
    and every day on the balcony of the sea,
    wings open, fire is born,
    and everything is blue again like morning. ”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #14
    Pablo Neruda
    “You know how this is:
    if I look
    at the crystal moon, at the red branch
    of the slow autumn at my window,
    if I touch
    near the fire
    the impalpable ash
    or the wrinkled body of the log,
    everything carries me to you,
    as if everything that exists,
    aromas, light, metals,
    were little boats
    that sail
    toward those isles of yours that wait for me.”
    Pablo Neruda, The Captain's Verses

  • #15
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as the plant that never blooms
    but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
    thanks to your love a certain solid fragrence
    risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

    and:

    No one can stop the river of your hands,
    your eyes and their sleepiness, my dearest.
    You are the trembling of time, which passes
    between the vertical light and the darkening sky.

    and:

    From the stormy archipelagoes I brought
    my windy accordian, waves of crazy rain,
    the habitual slowness of natural things:
    they made up my wild heart.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #16
    Pablo Neruda
    “Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #17
    Pablo Neruda
    “If you should ask me where I've been all this time
    I have to say "Things happen."
    I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth,
    on the river ruined in its own duration:
    I know nothing save things the birds have lost,
    the sea I left behind, or my sister crying.
    Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock
    with day? Why the dark night swilling round
    in our mouths? And why the dead?”
    Pablo Neruda, Residence on Earth

  • #18
    Pablo Neruda
    “Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?
    Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.”
    Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

  • #20
    Maya Angelou
    “Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
    I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
    But when I start to tell them,
    They think I'm telling lies.
    I say,
    It's in the reach of my arms
    The span of my hips,
    The stride of my step,
    The curl of my lips.
    I'm a woman
    Phenomenally.
    Phenomenal woman,
    That's me.”
    Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

  • #21
    Maya Angelou
    “A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #22
    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #23
    Maya Angelou
    “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
    maya angelou

  • #24
    Maya Angelou
    “Out of the huts of history's shame
    I rise
    Up from a past that's rooted in pain
    I rise
    I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
    Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
    Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
    I rise
    Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
    I rise
    Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
    I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
    I rise
    I rise
    I rise.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #25
    Maya Angelou
    “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #26
    Maya Angelou
    “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”
    Maya Angelou

  • #27
    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

  • #28
    Maya Angelou
    “Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #29
    Maya Angelou
    “Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
    Maya Angelou



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