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“Everything is like a wall.
Said a scholar to the troll.
Bang your head to go on through.
Then you'll see, there is no queue.”
― Nothing is here...
Said a scholar to the troll.
Bang your head to go on through.
Then you'll see, there is no queue.”
― Nothing is here...
“That’s what I want, she thought, with the fiercest feeling of wanting she’d ever had in her life. She wanted that look her granny had, that look that told the world here I am, I’m somebody, and here is my life. I been young and old and in between, I loved a man, raised my children, worked, laughed, cried, and, see, even after all that, here I still am. “I’ll be”
― Moon Women
― Moon Women
“SHIELD
~uwe 24
At times an idea hits us with the terrific force of a high-flying jet re-entering our atmosphere. It takes hold of us and shakes us with the same sound force and itisveryoften just asstarding.Asoftpedaling thought comes to mind and we acknowledge it only briefly, but it comes back again and again, until we stop to think about it. It pays to listen. All good things do not come with mind-smashing sound effects. Some of the best of life comes on soft shoes and barely brushes us. If we are alert, we may savor it for a lifetime. If we are crusty and hard to deal with, a splendid idea may go right by us and light on someone more sensitive.
I have heard your words-they have entered one ear and shall not escape the other...
SHARITARISH
D`i`e 25
ust when we think nothing is working there is a glimmer of light. If we could believe in our hearts that what looks impossible can work out, we could bear more easily with hardships. Living is like theweather.”
― Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations (Cherokee Feast of Days
~uwe 24
At times an idea hits us with the terrific force of a high-flying jet re-entering our atmosphere. It takes hold of us and shakes us with the same sound force and itisveryoften just asstarding.Asoftpedaling thought comes to mind and we acknowledge it only briefly, but it comes back again and again, until we stop to think about it. It pays to listen. All good things do not come with mind-smashing sound effects. Some of the best of life comes on soft shoes and barely brushes us. If we are alert, we may savor it for a lifetime. If we are crusty and hard to deal with, a splendid idea may go right by us and light on someone more sensitive.
I have heard your words-they have entered one ear and shall not escape the other...
SHARITARISH
D`i`e 25
ust when we think nothing is working there is a glimmer of light. If we could believe in our hearts that what looks impossible can work out, we could bear more easily with hardships. Living is like theweather.”
― Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations (Cherokee Feast of Days
“Someone noted that in this culture
we worship our work,
play at our worship,
and work at our play.”
― The Power of Pause: Becoming More by Doing Less
we worship our work,
play at our worship,
and work at our play.”
― The Power of Pause: Becoming More by Doing Less
“She was, he reflected, one of his closest friends, in a rather curious, slightly old-fashioned way.”
― My Italian Bulldozer
― My Italian Bulldozer
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