“What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category: Word Power
Word Power categories are post of quotes/poems/short stories from different known personalities or great and wise men/women that I like.
Nourish yourself
“Your soul needs time for solitude and self - reflection. In order to love, lead, heal and create, you must nourish yourself first.”~ Louise Hay
Let go and see
“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe. Trust. Let go and see what happens.”~ Unknown
By W. H. Auden
“I’ll love, dear, I’ll love you, ‘Till China and Africa meet;And the river jumps over the mountain, And the salmon sing in the street. .. ‘I’ll love you ‘till the ocean, Is folded and hung up to dry;And the seven stars go squawking, Like geese about the sky.”
Define yourself
“Never accept the definition of life from others, It is your life,Define yourself.”~ unknown
Torch in the dark
“You never forget a person who came to you with a torch in the dark.”~ N. Rose
A scholar named Wang
A scholar named Wang, laughed at my poems.“The accents are wrong.” He said,“Too many beats, the meter is poor, the wording impulsive.” I laugh at his poems,As he laughs at mine.They read like: the words of a blind man, describing the sun. ~ Hoff (from Tao of Pooh)
What once made you mad, now makes you laugh
“Master, how will I know if I’m making any progress?”“You know it when: what once made you mad, now makes you laugh.“~ unknown
Better guide in our selves
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it than any other persons can be.” ~ Fanny Price (Mansfield Park) Related post : Mansfield Park - Book Review
Action
“All know the way, few actually walk it.”~ Bodhidharma
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