Kels.: Sigh.

Expressions of Love

I loved this talk in conference so much. Can't wait to have this, too!

Note to self:

"Gravity isn't only what makes us fall, it's what makes our muscles strong."

--Oskar, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

--Goethe

"Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that I learn of him."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am not a human being. I am dynamite."
--Friedrich Nietzsche

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
--Socrates

"i thank you god for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."
--e. e. cummings

"There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good."
--Edwin Denby

"Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Isn’t it funny the way some combinations of words can give you—almost apart from their meaning—a thrill like music?”
--C. S. Lewis

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent."
--Victor Hugo

“Language most shows a man. Speak, that I may see thee.”
--Ben Jonson

"Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world."
--Walter Pater

"Our minds must bend as well as our knees."

--Maxwell

"You can miss a lot by sticking to the point."

--Hmong belief

"Literature shows us the world again so that we recognize it."

--Wordsworth

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Sigh.

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