... isn't rowing....

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Comfortable with each other

“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.
During the month of October, I am going to just watch things fall into place, or not!

It fell silent

“At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.”
- Chris Val Allsburg, The Polar Express
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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.
During the month of October, I am going to just watch things fall into place, or not!

To hell, my love, with you

“In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.”
- Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

All else is unreal

“When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.”
- Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth
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Mahatma Gandhi was born today, in 1869

Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.
During the month of October, I am going to just watch things fall into place, or not!

Analyzing humor....

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."

~ E. B. White

.... into the heart of the night

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

... springs that are yours

"For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours."
Pam Brown

....a prettier shell...

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

~ Issac Newton

... the hand that does not grasp.

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
~ John Berry

... we are gifted...

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, 
and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."
~ Marie Curie

...the handle of faith

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."

~ Henry Ward Beecher 

Knowing grass.....

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."
~ Hal Borland

He who has not Christmas....

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."

~ Roy L. Smith

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