Carpe Diem

"I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way..."

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She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.

Shel Silverstein

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I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes, I saw many clothes in which there were no humans.

Rumi

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Aedh Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

                                          - William Butler Yeats

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Dark Sonnet

I don't think that I've been in love as such, Although I liked a few folk pretty well. Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch, For brave men died and empires rose and fell For love: girls followed boys to foreign lands And men have followed women into Hell. In plays and poems someone understands There's something makes us more than blood and bone And more than biological demands... For me, love's like the wind, unseen, unknown. I see the trees are bending where it's been, I know that it leaves wreckage where it's blown. I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone."

                                                   - Neil Gaiman

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Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.

Walt Whitman

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What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Walt Whitman

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mohatma Gandhi

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Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

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In life, many things will catch our eye, but only a few will catch our heart....cherish those.

Michael Nolan

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A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings. Always believe in yourself!

Unknown

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An arrow can only be shot by pulling it back. So when your life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it's going to launch you into something truly great. Just focus and keep aiming.

Unknown

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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus

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People do all sorts of clever things to improve life, instead of doing the simplest thing: refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

Leo Tolstoy

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The world of dew— A world of dew it is indeed, And yet, and yet . . .

Issa

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He who has why to live, can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Dr. Seuss