Don't Quote Me

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Ordinarily I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my ways of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.

How I Go Into The Woods by Mary Oliver, via Scripps-Mesa Garden Club

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Life's not fair... but it's hopeful

?, via Katherine

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We live in a culture where we speak before we think. Which is a problem because everyone is carrying around a megaphone in their pocket. If we want to improve our relationships we might want to take some age-old advice from Socrates. One day, an acquaintance of Socrates asked him, “Do you know what I just heard about your friend?” Before listening to what the man had to say, Socrates asked him three questions: 1. “Are you sure what you’re going to tell me is true?” 2. “Is what you’re about to tell me something good?” 3. “Is what you want to tell me useful?” When the man said “no” to all three questions, Socrates asked him why he should listen to something that is “neither true, nor good, nor even useful?” Expressing ourselves can be a powerful statement and it has the power to change lives for better or worse. If what we say isn’t true, good, or useful, maybe we should take a second before we speak up.

Matt D'Avella

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Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Stuart Udall, Secretary of the Interior, 1961-1969

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I can never bee all the people I want and live all the live I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want. I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.

Sylvia Plath, via Sam N

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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in doing.

Shakespear, via Ben Thomas

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Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese Prover

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There are so many people building key boards - who wears a shark suit?

AN

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lol this xref is the gift that keeps giving. i just noticed that some of the parcels still print darker. bc... they were drawn as 230 identical plines on top of each other. idk where god is but he aint here.

TT

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When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

Dalai Lama, via Long Nguyen, via LPA

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What would you create, if you knew nobody would ever see it? Would it change what you posted if you knew nobody could like or comment? Would you even post at all? Metrics can be useful for giving us insights into what’s working. Does our audience prefer photos that feature your adorable puppy, or massive biceps? But, getting too wrapped in the numbers does more harm than good. There are many other factors that affect how your content performs. The results are always going to be inconsistent. And, if we let it dictate when and what we post, we’re going to be inconsistent, too. We’re never going to stick to something long-term that we don’t enjoy. So, if you want to create consistently, you have to find fulfillment in the process, not the outcome. Create because it’s fun. Create because it helps people. Create because it gives you a sense of accomplishment. Create like nobody’s watching... and you might be surprised how many do.

Matt D’Avella

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Conquer tomorrow by preparing today.

Rouge Preparedness

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Pools of sorrow, waves of joy. August was as difficult as it was beautiful. Blessed to be where I am, excited to see where I'll go, and forever grateful for where I came from.

nique.eats

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My father once challenged me on what he perceived as the senselessness of my record buying habit, and I explained to him that the happiest feeling in the world, for me, was walking into a record store with a few dollars to spend; few things have ever made me feel as good, and I suspect few things ever will. There is, in any obsession, a kind of helplessness, but as addictions go, this one has always seemed to me pretty harmless. The modern world, however, has issued a new and terrifying challenge: Try and keep up. The diluvial nature of modern media leaves us little time to pause. The challenge, then, is to cultivate the patience and the discipline necessary to engage more deeply than the modern world allows. Just because we are flooded doesn't mean we have to drown.

James Jackson Toth

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Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.

Charles Reade (attrib.)

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If I had my way, I would never leave Keep building these random memories Turning our days into melodies But since I can't stay... I'll just keep playing back These fragments of time Everywhere I go these moments will shine

Daft Punk - Fragments of Time, via Tiffany V.

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The perfumed flowers are our sisters, the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. We do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water. The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth.

Chief Seattle, 1854, via Philip Purpuri