Saturday, September 5, 2009

Thoughts...

“I'm not some assignment; no, love is all I am.”-Dawes

“Don’t settle yourself for the wisdom of men.” -Jason Upton

“So high in their leafy silence, over kells, over Durrow as the Vikings raged south—the old monks made the alphabet wild:” -Eavan Boland

“That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face—that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.” –G.K. Chesterton

“I don’t like formal gardens.” –Walt Disney

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” –Hemmingway

“The reader’s job is to bring the black marks to life.” –Some professor on PBS

“World, I have overcome you…by my song and the blood of a son.” –John Mark McMillian

“Fairy tale, our love is a fairy tale, and it never has been told before.” –Frank Sinatra

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” –Hobbes (of calvin and…)

“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” –Mary Oliver

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” –Mozart

“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” –Willa Cather

“On the contrary compassion means going directly to those people and places where suffering is most acute and building a home there.” –Henri Nouwen

“He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” –Micah 6:8

Now my feet turn the corner back home
Sun turns the evening to rose
Stars turning high up above
You turn me into somebody loved
-The weepies

“I’d like to know someone
Who knows deep where they come from.”
-Meg Hutcinson

“I just want to leave you with this thought, that it’s just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we’re just getting started…we are just getting started.” –Walt Disney

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