A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one’s feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Category: Quoted
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A Little Garden and a Vast Sky
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Which Would You Rather Be?
It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.
~ Spotted on a notepad @ Papemelroti
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The most beautiful of altars…
The most beautiful of altars is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God.
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What Do You Fear?
Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables -
to fix its gaze upon a Star…
… to transform the grief which gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes it’s gaze upon a star.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables -
Wise Words from Thorin
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Thorin of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping…
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together. For the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.
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Grace
Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.
~ Paul Zahl
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