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#1

“Wings can only fly
as long as the bird flies
Soul blackens when you
put on vestment of lies
White candle wax cries
for ignitable wick
Jealous people burn
to make your heart feel sick”
― Munia Khan

tags: bird, birds, black, candle, cries, envy, envy-quotes, fly, heart, ignite, jealous, jealousy, jealousy-quotes, lies, poem, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, sick, soul, verse, vestments, wax, white, wick, wings, wisdom

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#2

“False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

tags: false, falsehood, judge, judgement, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, popular-quotes, popularity, truth, truth-and-lies, truth-of-life, truth-quotes, truth-telling, truthfulness, wings

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#3

“Writing lets you be, say, and do anything. It's sugar for your ego and wings for your ideas.”
― A.M. McKnight, Goslyn County

tags: ego, sugar, wings

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#4

“Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

tags: birds, book, books, fail, failure, flight, flow, fly, fly-high, food-for-thought, important, inform, information, israelmore-ayivor, knowledge, leader, leaders, leadership, learn, learner, learners, learning, personal-development, self-improvement, study, success, successful, useful, wings, wisdom

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#5

“I wouldn't mind
if life left me...

wingless

burnt to cinders
ripped by storms
scattered...like weeds

celestially wounded

without cherry blossoms
to perish with

but I would cry
with head held in my hands
if it left me...

unfulfilled.”
― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

tags: cherry-blossoms, cry, crying, deep-thoughts, dreams, fears, hopes, perish, personal, poetry, poetry-quotes, scattered-heart, storms, tears, unfulfilled, weeds, wingless, wings, wounded

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#6

“Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.”
― Roger Tory Peterson

tags: birds, flying, freedom, wings

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#7

“Develop the wings of loyalty and you will fly above the dooms of disappointments. Disloyalty has one whistle; when it’s blown, opportunities take to their heels!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

tags: be-honest, develop, disappointment, disappointments, disloyalty, food-for-thought, heels, honesty, israelmore-ayivor, loyalty, loyalty-and-disloyalty, opportunities, opportunity, personal-development, self-improvement, tell-the-truth, truth, truthful, truthfulness, wing, wings

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#8

“My mama steps out of her dress
and drops it, an inheritance falling to my feet.
She stands alone: bathed, blooming,
burdened with nothing of this world.
Her body is naked and beautiful,
her wings gray and scorched,
her brown eyes piercing the brown of mine.
I watch her departure, her flapping wings:
She doesn’t look back, not even once,
not even to whisper my name”
― Brenda Sutton Rose

tags: mama, mother, poetry, southern-literature, wings

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#9

“The winged beasts and angels know, that mortals cannot fly.
But how I flew to see the sun; a broken bird am I.”
― Craig Froman, An Owl on the Moon: A Journal From the Edge of Darkness

tags: angels, beasts, bird, fly, mortals, wings

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#10

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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#11

“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

tags: anxiety, happiness, love, torment

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#12

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

tags: infinity, perception

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#13

“The wet sidewalks gleam with a broad sheet of red light. The raindrops glitter as if the sky were pouring down rubies. The spouts gush with fire. Methinks the scene is an emblem of the deceptive glare which mortals throw around their footsteps in the moral world, thus bedazzling themselves till they forget the impenetrable obscurity that hems them in, and that can be dispelled only by radiance from above.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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#14

“The remedy for the mental unrest, which is in itself an illness, lies not in an enlightened knowledge of the harmfulness and ineffectiveness of worry, not even in the acquirement of an unconscious conscience, but in the living of a life so full and good that worry cannot find place in it. That”
― Herbert J. Hall, The Untroubled Mind

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#15

“Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar.…”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

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#16

“He came out from somewhere at night and crept around the kitchen with a sharp razor in his white, fine-boned hand, shaving off slivers of meat, of nuts, of bread, until his plate, paper-thin, felt heavy to him.”
― Lydia Davis, Break It Down: Stories

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#17

“The first mystery was that the rows of candles under each of the statues of Jesus and Mary and Joseph were all flickering and trembling as if there were gusts of wind when in fact the vast church was shut tight and none of the heavy doors were open. I believed that the spirit of God in the statues was so strong it made the candles flutter and hiss, tremulous with suffering. Each tiny burst of light lit up the caked blood on Jesus’s bony white feet and it looked wet.”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

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#18

“At the very least, our willingness to ban our emotional manipulation of others produces an extraordinary lightness and peace of mind. For what at first seems like surrender or inaction ends up restoring an almost forgotten sense of vitality and enthusiasm; All that scheming, it turns out, took up much more time and effort than we thought, energy which is now available for new and more satisfying interests.”
― Lewis M. Andrews, To Thine Own Self Be True: The Relationship Between Spiritual Values and Emotional Health

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#19

“To the outside observer, deep thinking may appear methodically compulsive, but it is much more the product of a person’s faith in himself and his emotional inclinations than the result of any objective discipline. Hence James’ descriptive phrase: “the sentiment of rationality.”
― Lewis M. Andrews, To Thine Own Self Be True: The Relationship Between Spiritual Values and Emotional Health

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#20

“One day at a time, and the day is His day; He hath numbered its hours, though they haste or delay. His grace is sufficient; we walk not alone; As the day, so the strength that He giveth His own.”
― Annie Johnson Flint, He Giveth More Grace: One Hundred Poems by Annie Johnson Flint

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#21

“The man who knows of the universe of spirit walks upright, the materialist hugs the earth.”
― F.J. Sheed, Theology for Beginners

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