Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
~James Russell Lowell [1819-1891]

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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

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.
~ Kenneth Baker

'Bourgeois,' I observed, 'is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent'.
~ Anthony Hope

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.
~ Ayn Rand

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

Never despise a person's sensitivity.
His sensitivity is his genius.
-- Charles Baudelaire

"Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them."
-– Jonas Salk



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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.

'Grace is especially associated with men in their sins; mercy is especially associated with men in their misery.'
~ Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, p. 99

Mercy relates to the negative; grace relates to the positive. In relation to salvation, mercy says, "No hell," whereas grace says, "Heaven." Mercy says, "I pity you"; grace says, "I pardon you."
~ Dr. John MacArthur

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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

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
-- Pablo Picasso.

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This is real good fun, Airedale! Thank you.

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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.

Of all the organs of the body, few accomplish as much in so little space as the ear.... It can set itself to hear the low throb of a foghorn at one end of its range and the piercing wail of a jet engine at the other end. It can make the fine distinction between the music played by the violin and the viola sections of a symphony orchestra. It can reject the hubbub of a cocktail party while picking out a single familiar voice. Even during sleep the ear functions with incredible efficiency. Because the brain can interpret and select signals passed to it by the ear, a man can sleep soundly through noisy traffic and the blaring of a neighbor's television setand then awaken promptly at the gentle urging of a chime alarm clock.
~Stevens S.S. & Warshofsky, Fred

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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
—Rudyard Kipling

Hope springs from a heart of compassion; despair is the product of a heart of pity.... Pity touches our feelings. Compassion engages our will.

~Beyond Hunger, Art Bells, p. 38,40

Thanks, Ananya!

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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

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
-- Thomas Szasz.

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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.

Selling is trying to get people to want what you have. Marketing is trying to have what people want.

~ Fred Lee, If Disney Ran Your Hospital, 2004

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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

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

Form is emptiness, and emptiness is indeed form. emptiness is not different from form, form is not different from emptiness. What is form that is emptiness, what is emptiness, that is form.
-- Prajna-paramita-hridaya-Sutra as quoted in F. M. Muller's "Sacred Books of the East, vol XLIX

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

" I wish all our clever young poets would remember by homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose equals words in their best order; poetry equals the best words in the best order."
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

The nature and depth of human pride are illuminated by comparing boasting to self-pity. Both are manifestations of pride. Boasting is the response of pride to success. Self-pity is the response of pride to suffering.

~ Dr. John Piper, The Dangerous Duty of Delight, p. 34

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
- George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)