"He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely. A door was suddenly opened, the draught caught the little dancer and she fluttered like a sylph, straight into the fire, to the soldier, blazed up and was gone! By this time the soldier was reduced to a mere lump, and when the maid took away the ashes next morning she found him, in the shape of a small tin heart. All that was left of the dancer was her spangle, and that was burnt as black as a coal."

-- Hans Christian Andersen

#Morning Quotes #Heart Quotes #Gun Quotes

“In looking for my mind, I discovered that it seems to be in many different places. Sometimes it is drinking a glass of water, remembering swimming in the summer, feeling the breeze. In this contemplation I observed that the self is more elusive than I thought.”
“What's left is palimpsestâ€”one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.”
“The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.”

Source : John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, William Buchan (1983). “Letters to Reyna”, London : Buchan & Enright
“I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.”

Source : "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.
“We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too.”
“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
“We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women”

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