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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life You Better Experiment More Make Experiments
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi
Love You Yourself Find Seek Merely Within Built Task Against Your Barriers
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Khalil Gibran
Faith Lonely Doubt Pain Too Brother Know His Twin
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. Maya Angelou
Me History You Dust Down Bitter Rise Dirt Write Like Still Lines Very May Your Twisted
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost
Work Day You Boss Hours Faithfully Get May Eight Working Twelve Eventually
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. Audre Lorde
Myself Strength Me People Other Define Alive Would Would-Be Eaten Fantasies
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life Silence Speak Darkness Ocean Other Distant Signal Only Voice Look Another Pass Passing Ships Again Then Shown Each Night
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Khalil Gibran
Life Attitude You Mind Living Way Determined Looks Happens Much Your Bring Brings
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good. Maya Angelou
Good You Change Too Late People Never Too Late Matter Long Too Late Everywhere Some Rather Never Like Walking Than Stones Done Anywhere Them Breathing Convinced Speaking Start
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot
Temptation Wrong Greatest Reason Deed Right Treason Last
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. Aeschylus
Happiness Times Effort Choice Requires
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Khalil Gibran
Love Own Separation Hour Until Knows Been Depth Ever
It is better to rust out than wear out. Edwin Markham
Wisdom Better Out Wear Rust Than
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend. James Russell Lowell
Life Change Strange Every Runs Faces Road New Friend End Milestones Near Grows
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational Good Day Every Day Song Words Speak Picture Few Every Possible At Least One See Poem Read Least Hear Sensible Little Should Exquisite
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats
Nothing Becomes Till Real Experienced Ever
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Character Simplicity Style All Things Excellence Supreme Manner Things
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hope Parenting Lasting Other Our Give Only Wings Children Roots Two
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. John Keats
Joy Will Beauty Nothingness Increases Never Pass Forever Loveliness Thing
Colors are the smiles of nature. Leigh Hunt
Smile Nature Colors Smiles
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. Rabindranath Tagore
You Gardening Beauty Flower Petals Her Gather
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe
Life Death Best Other Say Shadowy Shall Divide Boundaries Begins Ends Where Which Who Vague
Facts are many, but the truth is one. Rabindranath Tagore
Truth Truth Is Facts Many
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot
Beginning Make Call End Often Where Start
I imagine that yes is the only living thing. E. E. Cummings
Living Imagination Only Yes Thing Living Thing Imagine
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Alfred Austin
Nature Soul Gardening Heart Garden Nurture Sun Dirt Head Feed Glory Hands Just Body
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