Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Just wanted to start a place to keep quotations (famous or not) that are meaningful…perhaps even a reflection on those quotes, notes on where I heard them, etc. Feel free to add your own to the board…
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“A ship in harbor is safe. That is not what ships are made for.”
- Gerald Manley Hopkins
Subhan, do you remember this? It was on a bookmark you gave me many years ago when we all lived in the house on 19th in Hattiesburg. I still have the bookmark, too. It and you have made a forever impression on my life, and I love you and thank you. Blessings.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it.”
- Edith Wharton
For Aziza, on the day after her birthday. I love you. AV
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Friday, March 27, 2008
– Rumi (trans. Coleman Barks)
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June 28, 2008
“I have been studying the straits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositons of man. The result is humiliating to me.”
– Mark Twain
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