Quotes

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person. Czeslaw Milosz, poet, “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.127, Penguin UK

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When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist. Elizabeth Hardwick, writer, from “Sleepless Nights” Image: Atik Sulianami

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A woodman came into a forest to ask the trees to give him a handle for his axe. It seemed so modest a request that the principal trees at once agreed to it, and it was settled among them that a plain, homely ash tree should furnish what was wanted. No sooner had the woodman […]

via “A woodman came into a forest to ask the trees to give him a handle for his axe… No sooner had the woodman fitted the wood to his purpose, than he began felling the noblest trees in the wood.” — Art of Quotation

Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know. Wislawa Szymborska, writer, poet, “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

via “Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know’.” — Art of Quotation

Hey guys!!! How will you feel, If you are stopped from entering in kitchen for next five days??? What will you do, If you are ordered to sleep on mat leaving your comfortable bed for next five days??? Will you not have a fight, if they stop you from entering in a temple saying you […]

via A fight of purity by woman — Jalvis Quotes

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” – Albert Einstein

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“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

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“Maybe it’s easier to like someone else’s life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.”

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Spread kindness like wildfire. Ask questions. Cross bridges. Pick up a piece of trash. Say hello. Say thank you, to God and others. Go for a walk. Make eye contact. Consider the lilies. Mend fences. Plant wildflowers. Sit in the grass and watch a bumblebee—it will teach you there is no need to rush. Pay […]

via A Prescription for Wholeness — Jason Kanz

Why Orwell’s ‘1984′ Issues So Much Now Here are 10 lessons to accompany the first eight chapters to Orwell’s 1984. Syme – Winston’s colleague on the Ministry of Fact. Consequently, the Authorities of the Kingdom of Spain objects to the reservations made to articles three, 4, 6, 12, 13 and sixteen of the Convention in opposition […]

via Why Orwell’s ‘1984′ Issues So Much Now — moore college mission 2011