October 2009
31 posts
There is grandeur in this view of life… whilst this planet has gone cycling on...
– Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
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Your faith has saved you. Today you will be with me in paradise.
– Jesus, to a thief who was crucified alongside him
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Not all those who wander are lost.
– J.R.R. Tolkein
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It’s an experience beyond words. Those who know can not tell, and those...
– Joseph Campbell, explaining to Bill Moyers that at some point in life God makes a sudden, palpable appearance.
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Always the beautiful answer that asks the more beautiful question.
– e. e. cummings
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Stuff and Nonesense, said Alice loudly, growing to her full size.
Why, you’re...
– Alice in Wonderland
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Love has reasons that Reason knoweth not.
– Blaise Pascal
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
- Robert Frost
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“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.
It took me years to...
– Mary Oliver
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Saint
“No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid…
“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.”
— George Orwell, “Reflections on Gandhi,”
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
– Napoleon
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Like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir,
I have tried,
...
– Leonard Cohen
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When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about...
– Buckminster Fuller
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Why is experience the worst teacher?
Because first she gives the test, then...
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I have reason to believe
We all will be received
in Graceland.
– Paul Simon, Graceland