When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then the LORD will take care of me.
~ Davidic Psalm 27:10, (NKJV)

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
~ James 1:27, (NKJV)

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
~ John Berger

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The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief. ~ Leslie Weatherhead
Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy--fully armed too, as it's a highly dangerous quest. ~ Flannery O'Connor

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
-- Charles Simic

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
-- Albert Schweitzer.
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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~
We can't all be stars, but we can all twinkle.
We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

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"You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat."
~ Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

"It's The Hard-Knock Life" from Annie
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/annie/itsthehard-knocklife.htm

"Children are not soul-less, unguided creatures made for adults to manipulate like chattel. They are spirited beings, complete at every given moment and age. They have differentiated minds, specialized abilites and unique gifts that give testimony to themselves and their Creator. Children look to us for guidance. And they see us as symbols of love and hate, truth and deceit, selflessness and selfishness, and good and evil.....Children are not our subordinates. They are our co-conspiriators - breathing the same pneuma as us and contributing to a world far beyond present comprehension. Ultimately, in our webs of relationships, it is the children who will write, rewrite, and edit our scripts of life."
~ Anthony Gregorc
http://www.quoteland.com/author.asp?AUTHOR_ID=2193

"People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given."
-- Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett.

" When there is no love for a child to remember,
Then there is nothing for the child to remember except the hate."
--- Roger Dean Kiser, from Orphan

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~
We can't all be stars, but we can all twinkle.
We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.