From the category archives:
Our dreams will sometimes be shattered and our ethereal hopes blasted … Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
[Image: Washington DC, inscribed at the entrance of the Lincoln Memorial.]
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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. ~ Sophia Loren
[Image: Roman Imperial Forum, Italy.]
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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~ Hindu proverb
[Image: Lillian, Louisiana]
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When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert (from her biography of naturalist Eustace Conway)
[Image: View of Whidbey Island from Port Townsend, WA.]
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Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ~ Henry David Thoreau
[Image: Pine Jay, Oregon Dunes]
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! ~ Louise Bogan
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Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world ~ and if each of us is freed up to give the gift that is uniquely ours to give, the world will be in total harmony. ~ Buckminster Fuller
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. ~ Albert Einstein
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