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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    “Always do your best in whatever you do;
    set goals and seek challenges;
    become a role model for those coming behind you; and
    always have God in your heart.”
    ― Charles F. Bolden
    tags: challenges, doing-your-best, goals, role-models
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    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: kindness
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    Nancy Thayer
    “It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.”
    ― Nancy Thayer
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    Jack London
    “I would rather be ashes than dust!
    I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
    I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
    The function of man is to live, not to exist.
    I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
    I shall use my time.”
    ― Jack London
    tags: life, meteor
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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    “I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving—we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
    tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing
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    Aberjhani
    “The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.”
    ― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
    tags: famous-quotes, fear, fearlessness, haiku, meditation, national-poetry-month, nonviolent-conflict-resolution, passion, peace, poem-in-your-pocket-day, poetry, spirituality, world-poetry-day
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    Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
    “Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.”
    ― Aberjhani, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
    tags: colors, dreams, faith, inspiration, inspirational, metaphysics, mystical-poetry, mystical-powers, positive-motivation, power, spirituality
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    Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
    “Hope drowned in shadows
    emerges fiercely splendid––
    boldly angelic.”
    ― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
    tags: angel-poems, angels, courage, faith, haiku, haikus, hope, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, new-beginnings, quotes-for-the-new-year, rebirth, recovery, resurrection, shadows, spiritual-empowerment, starting-over, strength, surviving-depression, welcoming-the-new-year, world-suicide-prevention-day
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    This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a
    “This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms
    the diseased slums of a broken heart
    into a palace made of psalms and gold.”
    ― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
    tags: broken-hearts, classic-poems, classic-quotes, compassion, faith, grief, healing-grief, hope, infinity, inspiration, inspiration-for-the-soul, inspirational-quotes, newtown-connecticut, palaces, pearls, pearls-of-wisdom, quotes-for-easter, rebirth, recovery, recovery-from-grief, resurrection, roses, savannah-authors-and-poets, sorrow, spiritual-transformation, spirituality, survival, transformation
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    Aberjhani
    “Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.”
    ― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
    tags: agape-love, civilization, forgiveness, friendship, grace, hope, humanity, integrity, intelligence, love, moving-on-and-letting-go, philosophy, society, spirituality
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    Aberjhani
    “Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.”
    ― Aberjhani, The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
    tags: aberjhani, afghanistan-war, conflict-resolution, diplomacy, faith, global-march-for-peace-and-unity, global-village, hope, human-rights-day, international-community, love, nonviolence, nonviolent-conflict-resolution, peace-movement, peacism, political-debate, spirituality, syria, syrian-civil-war, unity, violence, war, wisdom, world-community, world-peace-day
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.”
    ― Sir Winston Churchill
    tags: house-of-commons-6-dec-1946, speech
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    Roald Dahl
    “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The Twits
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    In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
    “In your hands winter
    is a book with cloud pages
    that snow pearls of love.”
    ― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
    tags: angel-of-earth-days-and-seasons, anti-air-pollution, books, cold-weather, ecological-sustainability, environmentalism, famous-poems, famous-quotes, haiku, holiday-romance, inspirational, inspiring-authors, inspiring-books, literature, love, nanowrimo, nature, quotes-about-winter, snow, the-river-of-winged-dreams, winter-season, winter-time-haiku
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    In an age of bombs guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace with thought and action.
    “In an age of bombs
    guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace
    with thought and action.”
    ― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
    tags: 21st-century-violence, afghanistan-war, antiwar, bombs, global-unity, haiku, haiku-quotes, human-rights-day, humanity, meditation, nonviolent-conflict-resolution, peac-movement, peace-in-action, populatr-quotes, quotes-for-national-poetry-month, quotes-for-world-poetry-day, serenity, skylarks, syrian-civil-war, tranquility, tribute-to-the-olympics, violence, war, winter-olympics
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    Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
    “Stars ink your fingers
    with a lexicon of flame
    blazing rare knowledge.”
    ― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
    tags: angels-and-poets, famous-authors, famous-quotes-by-famous-poets, flame, haiku-quotes, ink, knowledge, lexicons, modern-classics, nanowrimo, national-poetry-month, original-source-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, stars, world-poetry-movement
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    Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I
    “Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.”
    ― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
    tags: aberjhani, bigotry, black-history-month, civil-unrest, crimean-war, cruelty, diplomacy, faith, faith-in-humanity, hate-crimes, hope-for-the-future, intolerance, national-history-day, nonviolent-conflict-resolution, peace, peace-movement, peacism, political-aggression, political-turmoil, prophecy, russia, syrian-civil-war, ukraine, violence, war, war-crimes, we-can-do-better, wisdom
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.

    Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: writers-on-writing, writing
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    Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
    “Death wins nothing here,
    gnawing wings that amputate––
    then spread, lift up, fly.”
    ― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
    tags: 9-11, angel-poems, angels, darren-hunt, death, endurance, eric-garner, faith, famous-quotes, famous-quotes-from-classic-books, grief, gun-control, gun-safety, haiku, human-rights-day, inspriration, kajieme-powell, killing-of-black-men-in-america, mass-murder, michael-brown, newtown, positive-motivation, recovery, resurrection, spirituality, syrian-civil-war, tamir-rice, terrorism, ukraine, war, war-in-afghanistan, war-in-iraq, wings
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    James Baldwin
    “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: experience, inspirational, pain, wisdom, wounds
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Anne Lamott
    “You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
    ― Anne Lamott
    tags: grief, loss, recovery
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    Aberjhani
    “The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.”
    ― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
    tags: at-risk-people, at-risk-youth, brokenness, compassion, counseling, empowerment-and-attitude, healing, healing-the-emotional-self, healing-the-past, helping-others, human-rights-day, humility, intervention, recovery, remembrances, suicidal, suicide, survival, survivor, survivors, survivors-of-war, survivorship, war-veterans, word-definitions
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    Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain
    “Rainbows introduce us to reflections
    of different beautiful possibilities
    so we never forget that pain and grief
    are not the final options in life.”
    ― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
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