o, it's been awhile since I've done a quote-related post, hasn't it? I thought I would share 13 of my current quote "finds." I come across and save so many, but these are the ones that stood out, this month. Enjoy!1. Don't ever take the fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. -G.K. Chesterton
2. Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. -Hafiz
3. Never look back unless you are planning on going that way. -Henry David Thoreau
4. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you. -Rumi
5. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. -Vaclav Havel
6. Life is curly. Don't try to straighten it out. -Susan Scott
7. True peace comes with the discovery that we can respect the seasons of life with a spacious and undefended heart. In it we learn to trust, to rest in the truth of the way things are, to willingly accept the measure of joy and sorrow we are given. -Jack Kornfield
8. Be not the slave of your own past--plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. -Florence Scovel Shinn
10. If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
11. The fact is that very few things have so much effect on the feeling inside a room as the sun shining into it. -Christopher Alexander
12. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world. -Stanley Kunitz
And I saved my very favorite new, and seasonal!, quote for last:
13. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. -George Eliot
Which one is your favorite? Do you have a quote to share with me? Please do!
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my favorite is this:
ReplyDeleteBe not the slave of your own past--plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I need to hear that, and hear it and hear it! And then hear it again :-)
Thanks!
I like them all read together. I copied the autumn one for our local newsletter.
ReplyDeleteLife is curly- too true too!
ReplyDeleteHave a great Thursday!
http://harrietandfriends.com/2011/09/the-best-places-to-be-a-woman/
I love these:
ReplyDeleteHear blessings dropping their blossoms around you. -Rumi
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. -Vaclav Havel
Hmmmm....