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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Andersen
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“Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.” — Amit Ray
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The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. ~ ~Edith Wharton
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"An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart." ~~ Ramana Maharshi
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“The leaf does not immediately absorb the drop of water falling on it; she slowly drinks with great pleasure!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be." - Charles Bukowski.
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“I felt my heart crack slowly like a pomegranate, spilling its seeds.” ― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow
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“A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.” – Crazy Horse, Sioux Chief
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“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.” – Charles Schaefer
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I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces I sing my heart out to the infinite sea I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains I sing my song to the free. ~~ Pete Townshend
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“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.” ~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing. ~~ A. A. Gill
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“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.” ― Paulo Coelho
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I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing ~~ Sting
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. —Albert Einstein
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"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Bonfires of the evening sun Merge in final unquenched glory From horizon up to heaven, While grotesque saguaro fingers Paint lofty silhouettes against the sky. ~Helen Castle, "Saguaro at Sunset," in Arizona Highways, 1973
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I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds. ~~ John Ruskin
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The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. ~~ Helen Macdonald
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. ~~ Emily Dickinson
