Monday, April 2, 2007

notes & quotes

i find these quotes beautiful. elegant in their simplicity, powerful in their depth, broad in their impact. they have certainly edified and uplifted me.

"if you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding." --pink floyd.

"dieu n'a pas de limite" --prof daryl lee

"life has too many passwords" --former coworker matt

"you cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." --anonymous, quote from present coworker julie lady's post-it note

"freedom ain't free." --quote from the "american girls" series i read voraciously in 3rd grade. i believe that quote came from the addy books, whose character was an escaped slave and her free uncle was telling her thus.

"the more i fight the less i win" --personal revelation

"that's character" --diane dehide, girl of the fw that i have always admired.

"goodbye alice in wonderland" --jewel

"slower than sin" --julie lady

"the best love stories have no endings" --the plaque on my mother's bedroom nighttable.

"time is the gift. enjoy your time." --kwan yin

"families are earned." --angelina jolie

"never trade that which is most important over that which is important for only a moment." --a father's advice to his young, impressionable son, as recounted at a fireside i attended this year.

"i know the lord loves me because time doesn't stand still. sunday will come." --girl in my institute class

"and i will bring the blind by a way that they know not; i will lead them in paths that they have not known: i will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. these things will i do unto them, and not forsake them." --isiah 42:16

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