"These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead."

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Source : "Cinquain: Triad" l. 1 (1915)

Adelaide Crapsey

#Fall Quotes #Snow Quotes #Silence Quotes

“Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.”
“My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of - or reincarnated from - royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.”
“I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.”
“I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters”
“Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.”
“The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.”
“What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear in the flash we call a human lifetime. Focusing on the pleasures of the world keeps the mind too distracted to search for the inner Self.”

Source : Swami Rama (2002). “Sacred Journey: Living Purposefully and Dying Gracefully”, p.34, Lotus Press
“The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.”

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