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"Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented."
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
A day... is a miniature eternity.
"I think I could turn and live with the animals. They are so placid and self-contained. They do not sweat and whine about their condition. Not one is dissatisfied. Not one is demented with the maia of owning things. Not one is disrespectful or unhappy over the world."
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. "
"We read and write poetry because we are members of the human
race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine,
law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and
necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love,
these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, 'O me! O
life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless
trains of the faithless--of cities filled with the foolish; what
good amid these, O me, O life?' Answer. That you are here--that
life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you
may contribute a verse.
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"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk?"
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog."
--Christian Bovee
--Oscar Wilde
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
--Walt Whitman
--Mahatma Gandhi
That the powerful play goes on and you
may contribute a verse...
What will your verse be?"
--Tom Schulman, from The Dead Poets Society
--Albert Einstein
--Dwight D. Eisenhower