As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.

Author: Edward Hirsch

Author: Edward Hirsch

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But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of

Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word f

Author: Helen Keller
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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth sh

Author: Kahlil Gibran
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We imagine that our theological/conceptual systems are the means by which we know God as God is. I t

Author: Tim Keel
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Author: Louis Armstrong
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Each and every generation must discover its own mission or drown into the well of oblivion

Author: Thabiso Monkoe
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Thirst is a language even the grass understands.

Author: Marty Rubin
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The creative act is not performed by the artist alone

Author: Unknown
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May you find the beauty in every moment.

Author: Unknown
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I passionately believe home cooking has vast benefit to individuals, families, community, environmen

Author: Alyce Alexandra
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Endless dreams are forever waiting, whereas success is, and does.

Author: Bryant McGill
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God knows of love

Author: Leo Tolstoy
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Moving on is not like a birthday, you can’t count down the hours ‘til it arrives and you can’t mark

Author: Stephanie Georgopulos
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It doesn't matter if the group is a church or a gang or a sewing circle or masculinity itself, askin

Author: Brené Brown
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Author: H. L. Mencken
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Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.

Author: Paul C. Nagel
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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men whatever they say about you good or bad you are

Author: Thomas a Kempis
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Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire

Author: Cassandra Clare
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The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love merc

Author: Bridges McCall
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Gratitude is a gladness of soul.

Author: Unknown
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A man only knows what he's experienced

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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LOVE is, can, and will.

Author: Stephanie Lahart
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'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split

Author: Ludacris
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If we don’t see real changes in the world, it simply means we are not serious enough about creating

Author: Ilchi Lee
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It is great to read. You will discover wisdom.

Author: Unknown
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June suns, you cannot store themTo warm the winter's cold,The lad that hopes for heavenShall fill hi

Author: A.E. Housman
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I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

Author: Mark Ruffalo
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Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant desp

Author: Eraldo Banovac
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If your fancied god hates those you hate, then, this bumbling idiot is as little, and as buggered, a

Author: Fakeer Ishavardas
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...when she wakes up, there is silence, as though the day has held its breath.

Author: Nicole Dennis-Benn
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Still, even when false, legends can be most informative.

Author: Timothy Zahn
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Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from

Author: Pedro A. Pérez Raymond
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Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a

Author: Paul Gibbons
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Horror is about fear, about rising dread and unknown terrors, and in the face of such nightmares, th

Author: Shane Jiraiya Cummings
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But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

Author: Thomas Merton
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Life is a sports make it count.

Author: Derrick Adkins
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Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

Author: Meg Rosoff
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I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love t

Author: Andrew Murray
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I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school,

Author: Jim Brown
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Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every

Author: Jen Hatmaker
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Do your work with honesty and integrity, and don’t compromise God’s moral standards. It may be diffi

Author: Billy Graham
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.

Author: Samuel Johnson
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Sufism is known by means of itself.

Author: Idries Shah
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Donald Trump is actually the voice of the silent majority, and I think he's awoken that silent major

Author: Michael D. Cohen
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I think everything’s beautiful that is done through human’s heart and soul, that makes one’s inner w

Author: Igor Eliseev
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the des

Author: Oscar Wilde
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Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count

Author: Phyllis Bottome
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Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

Author: Benjamin Franklin Wade
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

Author: Boris Pasternak
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You are either a carrier or a barrier of love.

Author: Ka Chinery
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He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritu

Author: Sol Luckman
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We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.

Author: Michael Grant
Quote #71627

There is nothing bigger and more important than a person’s calling

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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To convert an hourly wage to an approximate yearly salary double the wage and change the decimal to

Author: Don Tichnor
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There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who ga

Author: Laurence Overmire
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Why have we built warships to bring home peace?

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Every great brand is like a great story.

Author: Kevin Plank
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A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different da

Author: Gilles Deleuze
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No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds th

Author: Mark Twain
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If you are still breathing maybe it is not such a bad day after all...

Author: Darren E. Laws
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You were a luminescent star in the darkened sky that became my universe.

Author: Truth Devour
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos

Author: Malin Akerman
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[Caine]"Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were."[Sam]"Let me guess: yo

Author: Michael Grant
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Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing T

Author: Frank Gaffney
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What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. B

Author: Sandra Brown
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Tastes like something that rhymes with cat." -Apollon

Author: Kate Wrath
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My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of st

Author: Bear Grylls
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Concerning the popularity of vampire books:I don't get it. I think people should read about bloody,

Author: Sandy Nathan
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I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I.

Author: Pawan Mishra
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The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.

Author: César Vallejo
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Only one person was conspicuously missing from the (American Society of Clinical Oncology, ASCO) par

Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you

Author: Cecily von Ziegesar
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If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in whic

Author: John Gribbin
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The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The

Author: Danielle Steel
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A lot can change in the editing room.

Author: Diane Lane
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Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questio

Author: Pope Francis
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Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would b

Author: Jeanne DuPrau
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You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

Author: César Chávez
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You can become a shining light for others.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but

Author: Brené Brown
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If you stay focused on one task or thought at a time you will less likely become frustrated.

Author: Sheryl Campbell
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Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time futureAnd time future contained in time p

Author: T.S. Eliot
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In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
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The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throa

Author: Hilaire Belloc
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But, as I have said, the bugs had no interest in getting us…and no great curiosity or enthusiasm abo

Author: William T. Vollmann
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There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once but there

Author: Lord Chesterfield
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All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. William Shakespeare

Author: Charmaine J. Forde
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We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship suc

Author: Tana French
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A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person

Author: Michel Faber
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the p

Author: Ian K. Smith
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The greatest duty of mankind lies in the proper uprearing of our children. The fact is recognized, b

Author: George F. Butler
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But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand.

Author: Christopher Ryan
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As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, a

Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be

Author: Sigmund Freud
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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What i

Author: René Daumal
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It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters. Net

Author: David Chiles
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Sometimes, I wonder .....Are we all as identical on our way out of the Earth...like the way we all c

Author: Tina Sequeira
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Bring your heart power into play to create the things that you wish in your life through energising

Author: Steven Redhead