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Hello all! I've been abundantly blessed by my virtual coffee chats with so many of you in this wonderful forum on Books and Literature! (The Relationship forum is fun too, but this is where inspiration comes from... "the stuff dreams are made of" )
Anyways... We all have favorite quotes, quotes that have touched a chord in our hearts and minds, quotes that have influenced our decisions, inspired us to go that extra mile, give us courage to face the day, and shown us what real living is like.
Lets share these divine inspirations with our little world here - on this little posting. I'll start with one of my all-time favorites....
Being a star-gazer myself and being the proud owner of a tempestuous personal history, this is one of my favorites - it reminds me that no matter what is swirling around me at a given time, I can get through it.
"The most tempestuous wind cannot disturb the quiet of the stars."
Literary wishes and Shakespearean dreams,
HistorianChick
well, it's not literature....but one of my favorite songs is "Closer to Fine" by Indigo Girls.
"There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine"
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Change is the nursery of music, joy, life and eternity.
The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
Man is always torn between the wish to regress to the womb and the wish to be fully born. Every act of birth requires the courage to let go of something, to let go of the breast, to let go of the lap, to let go of the hand, to let go eventually of all certainties, and to rely only upon one thing: one's own power to be aware and to respond; that is, one's own creativity.
To be creative means to consider the whole process of life as a process of birth, and not to take any stage of life as a final stage. Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Once upon a time there was a little grape stem. This stem was so glad to be alive...She drank water and minerals from the soil and grew and grew. She was young and strong and could manage quite well...All by Herself.
But then, the wind was cruel, the rain was harsh, the snow was not one bit understanding, and the little grape stem suffered. She drooped, weak and suffering. It would be so easy to stop trying to grow, to stop trying to live. And the grape stem felt poor! The winter was long, and the stem was weary.
But then the little grape stem heard a voice. It was another grape stem calling out to her "Here, reach out...hang on to me. But the stem hesitated. "What would this mean?" she thought, for you see, the little
stem had always managed quite well...All by herself.
But then, ever so cautiously, she reached out towards the other grape stem. "See, I can help you," it said. "Just wind your tendrils about me and I will help you lift your head." And the little stem trusted....and suddenly she could stand straight again.
The wind came...and the rain...and the snow, But when it came, the little grape stem was clinging to many other stems. And although the stems were swayed by the wind...and frozen by the snow, They stood strongly united to each other. And in their united strength...they could smile and grow.
And then, one day the little stem looked down and saw a tiny stem, swaying and frightened. And our little grape stem said, "Here, hang on...I will help you." And the other stem reached up to our grape stem...And together all the stems grew...Leaves budded...flowers bloomed...And finally, grapes formed And the grapes fed many.
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