Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
Life loves the liver of it.
- Topic: Life, Love
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The one hand trying to wash itself is a pitiful spectacle, but when one hand washes the other, power is increased, and it becomes a force to be reckoned with.
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
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Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.