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☮ The Indigo Lounge houses Poetry & Quotes from yesteryear that resonated with me in the most positive / inspiring ways imaginable.
Poetry:
Sometime
Sometimes, when all life's lessons have been learned,
And sun and stars have forevermore have set,
The things which our weak judgments here have spurned,
The things o'er which we grieved with lashes wet,
Will flash before us out of life's dark night,
As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue;
And we shall see how all God's plans are right,
And how what seemed reproof was love most true.
Then be content poor heart;
God's plans, like lilies pure and white, unfold;
We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart,-
Time will reveal the chalices of gold.
And if, through patient toil, we reach the land
Where tired feet, with sandals loosed, may rest,
When we shall clearly see and understand
I think that we will say, "God knew the best!"
- May Riley Smith
Letters to a Young Poet
I want to beseech you...
to be patient toward all
that is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the
questions themselves
like locked rooms and
like books
that are written in a very foreign language.
Do not now seek the answers,
which cannot be given you
because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to
live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then
gradually, without noticing it,
evolve some distant day
into the answer.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Quotes:
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down & lifting people up." - John Andrew Holmes
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"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
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"All glory comes from daring to begin." - Eugene F. Ware
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“Those who wish to sing always find a song.” - Swedish proverb
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"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent and skilful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives." - Willa A. Foster
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"Integrity is the essence of everything successful." - R. Buckminster Fuller
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"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all." - Oscar Wilde
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"The harder you work the luckier you get" - Gary Player
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"To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed." - Bernard Edmands
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"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." - John C. Maxwell
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"They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful." - Samuel Smiles
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​"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things." - Alphonse De Lamartine
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
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"Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them." - Colton
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"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Life is far too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
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"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." - Gail Sheehy
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen endeavour." - Vincent Lombardi
"One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared." - Merlin Olsen
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"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." - John Wooden
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"When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim- improve yourself." - Gilbert Arland
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"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly." - St. Fransic De Sales
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"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right." - Edward Simmons
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"If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting." - Dick Vermeil
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"It's a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it." - W. Somerset Maugham
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"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." - David Lloyd George
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"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after." - Goldsmith
"There is always room at the top." - Daniel Webster
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"Be great in act, as you have been in thought." - William Shakespeare
"It is only when you see a mosquito landing on your testicles that you realise there is always a way to solve problems without using violence." - Lao Tzu
"Seek to understand the root. - It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming." - Bruce Lee
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"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." - Galatians 5:22-23
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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce
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