A Great Fire

Knowledge, awareness, strength, love

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“I’m trying to forget you but I’m also waiting for you to come back.”

— (via love-diaries)

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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul.”

— Bram Stoker, Dracula (via the-book-diaries)

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The wild unbounded hills we ranged,

While oft our talk its topic changed,

And, desultory as our way,

Ranged, unconfined from grave to gay.

Even when it flagg'd , as oft will chance,

No effort made to break its trance,

We could right pleasantly pursue

Our thoughts in social silence too

Sir Walter Scott

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“Night air, good conversation, and a sky full of stars can heal almost any wound.”

— Beau Taplin, Remedy (via books-n-quotes)

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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

— William Shakespeare, The Tempest (via books-n-quotes)

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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

— Albert Camus, The Outsider (via books-n-quotes)

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Blossom Music Center

Photo credit: Jfellows

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“Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than you have ever been to stand up taller than you ever were.”

— (via love-diaries)

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Currently searching for my redwood type stature while dusting myself off from the knock down

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Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Mark Twain,

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- these are real things from which one can only cut oneself off at serious peril and risk to one's immortal soul.

Edward Carpenter,

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And away I go....

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“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”

— Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers (via books-n-quotes)