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And none will hear the postman's knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
~W.H. Auden

“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” -Lao Tzu

Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask. ~X-Files

“nothing that is worth knowing can be taught” -Oscar Wilde

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ~Elias Canetti

“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” - James Madison

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. ~Marsha Norman

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” - Hippocrates

A dream has power to poison sleep. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mutability"

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. ~Edgar Cayce

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” - William Blake

The flavour of wine is like delicate poetry. ~Louis Pasteur

I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn't have to wait for it to age. ~Steven Wright

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” -Voltaire

I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food. ~W.C. Fields

There are spunky little angels at the top of a bottle of wine and fearless little devils at the bottom. ~Terri Guillemets

I drink wine because I don't like to keep things bottled up. ~Author Unknown

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out. ~Oliver Burgess Meredith

Don't expect anything original from an echo. - Author Unknown

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. ~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. ~Henry Rollins

A day without laughter is a day wasted.” -Nicolas Chamfort

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. ~Susan Sontag

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. ~Ivy Compton-Burnett

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. ~Jonathan Swift

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~Samuel Butler, Erewhon

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. ~Maurice Chevalier

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ~Daniel Webster

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~Sydney J. Harris

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen. ~Alexandre Dumas

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown

Get mad, then get over it. ~Colin Powell

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels

Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things. ~Author Unknown

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia

If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ~Edgar Watson Howe

A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~Author Unknown

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley

"The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” - Mahatma Gandhi

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. ~Nora Ephron

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” - Plato

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. ~Martin Buber

“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep” - Albert Camus

Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. ~Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ~Winston Churchill

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality. ~Alfred Painter

Gratitude turns what we have into enough. ~Author Unknown

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. ~Author Unknown

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ~Author Unknown

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” - Mark Twain

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. - Voltaire

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation. - Samuel Johnson

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” -Arthur C. Clarke

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ~George Elliot

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. - St. Jerome

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone. ~William Blake

Vanity is the quicksand of reason. - George Sand

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. - Aesop

All God's angels come to us disguised. ~James Russell Lowell

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. - Dandemis

The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ~Jean Paul Richter

I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others. - Anton Szandor LaVey

It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. ~Cynthia E. Varnado

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. ~Tay Hohoff

If cats could talk, they wouldn't. ~Nan Porter

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” -Carl Sagan

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats. ~Albert Schweitzer

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” -Confucius

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. ~Mark Twain

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” -Aristotle

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. ~H. Jackson Brown

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” -Plutarch

If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation? ~Author Unknown

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” - Leonardo da Vinci

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~Dale Carnegie

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” - Victor Hugo

It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Bill Watterson

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. - Robert Southey

“There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.”
― Richelle Mead, Frostbite

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anaïs Nin

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” -Thomas Jefferson

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ~Benjamin Franklin

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. ~John Wesley

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night. ~Terri Guillemets

Follow your passion, and success will follow you. ~Terri Guillemets

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. - Charles Simic

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein

The past can't see you, but the future is listening. ~Terri Guillemets

The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young

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