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Quote Left He who knows not and knows not he knows not, He is a fool - Shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not, He is simple- Teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows, He is asleep - Awaken him. He who knows and knows that he knows, He is wise- follow him. Quote Right
Quote Left Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It takes life to love Life. Quote Right
Quote Left There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war. Quote Right
Quote Left Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend. Quote Right
Quote Left the wind came out of the cloud chilling And killing my Annabel Lee. Quote Right
Quote Left As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand. Quote Right
Quote Left Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago, Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary's Grove,... Quote Right
Quote Left Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul Quote Right
Quote Left If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Quote Right
Quote Left Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back. Quote Right
Quote Left The infrastructure doesn't exist for the government to share data with itself, particularly within different levels of government. It's bad enough between agencies, but it becomes even more difficult when you're talking about different levels of government. Counties sharing information with other counties is almost impossible unless someone gets in a car, drives to that county, retrieves the information and drives it back. What the private sector does very well is build the infrastructure which allows that information, which is public, to flow freely across jurisdictional and geographical lines. That's the benefit that the private sector has brought to this process. Quote Right
Quote Left Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art. Quote Right
Quote Left The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment. Quote Right
Quote Left If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life Quote Right
Quote Left To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of 'for' and 'against' into one organic unity which is without distinctions. Quote Right
Quote Left Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power. Quote Right
Quote Left If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that. Quote Right
Quote Left A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. Quote Right
Quote Left Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come. Quote Right
Quote Left I am Anne Rutledge who sleep beneath these weeds, Beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln,... Quote Right
Quote Left Ideas are the beginning of all achievement. Quote Right
Quote Left Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. Quote Right
Quote Left by Spoon Rivergathering many a shell, And many a flower and medicinal weed—... Quote Right
Quote Left To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities Quote Right
Quote Left It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. Quote Right
Quote Left The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering. Quote Right
Quote Left The prime minister came into office with many opportunities to show environmental leadership, but despite all of his passionate speeches ... when the chips are down he has often jumped the wrong way. Quote Right
Quote Left The eye-balls were seared with a milky mucus; The madness of a dying soul... Quote Right
Quote Left The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. Quote Right
Quote Left A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. Quote Right
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Quote Left Even after the environment quiets, is made ready, the sounds of silence keep us awake a bit. Sleeping is one of life's greatest mysteries. Quote Right
Quote Left People who disagree with you, sleep with you, loan you money, and live with you are the ones who know you the best. Quote Right
Quote Left "The rain can kiss you sweetly. The rain can beat on you. Yes, even the rain can sing you a lovely lullaby to sleep." Quote Right
Quote Left Let the fires come, for the heart does not flee to hide—it runs to be consumed by the very music we create. Quote Right
Quote Left My feet are bleeding on this rocky path I have chosen for myself, so my lips are curled upwards. Quote Right
Quote Left Young poets' hearts bleed love, old poet's hearts bleed ripe strife. Quote Right
Quote Left “The heart is made not whole by that which it receiveth, Nor by the soft laudation of the fleeting world; Desire must perish, ere aught of keeping leaveth, For that which is still entreated anon is hurled.” Quote Right
Quote Left Shivers through your body in the strangest places. Mystic creatures with skin torn faces. Bleeding hands bones show through bright red rivers and a misty dew. Quote Right
Quote Left What could be worse than being dead and deprived from making a difference? Don't let your mistakes weigh you down, stand up and do the needful immediately. If you're not dead, you're not done. Greater things are still to come. Don't walk again in the path where you tripped and fell in hell. The bleeding Pen. Blossom Monyei Quote Right
Quote Left Why can't I sleep on time? Is it you, who's on my mind? I let you go, but still think of you. How do I let myself find be free? Quote Right
Quote Left Breaks there a dream as sad as that of might-have-beens, that wakes the morning bright and beautiful, and spends the day in sleep that never ends. Quote Right
Quote Left Writing, the only suture — when truth starts to bleed Quote Right
Quote Left Dying of boredom unchallenged — the single worst kind of death (Dreamsleep: September, 2025) Quote Right
Quote Left I bleed burning tears, sprinkling salt on the wounds of my face, pleading for you to hear the moan of my heart. Quote Right
Quote Left I stopped chasing dreams, now building Visions. Being a dreamer lies in the hands of a sleeper Quote Right
Quote Left Once you are grounded in love, all other girls are mere fleeting specks of dust. Because you desire or longed them no more but just wipe it off like a dust at shoe. Quote Right
Quote Left In today’s troublesome world, people have learnt to sleep with one eye stoically closed to their problems and the other heroically open to face their problems. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu Quote Right
Quote Left The chanticleer is the gentleman of the animal kingdom Quote Right
Quote Left Murderers of nations wear suits, not remorse. They don’t sleep, they rest in their own toxic silence. Quote Right
Quote Left Humanity hasn’t died, it merely sleeps beneath piles of selfies and unsolicited opinions. Quote Right
Quote Left "I let your silence bleed into my veins." Quote Right
Quote Left Love is like falling asleep: it only happens when you let go of yourself. And if it is worthwhile, it is generally true that love precedes the one loved. Quote Right
Quote Left ON PRÉSENCE & AWAKENING “Presence is ungraspable, fleeting. It subsides as soon as it arises. When we wake up, we wake up to Presence. It is unstoppable, our eternal Truth. It matters not what we look like, do or wear - these are conditioned illusions of the mind. In the final analysis we are all presentations of Presence.” Quote Right
Quote Left Today Oedipalism is still rife in many families. And Oedipalism doesn’t mean sleeping with the parent of the opposite sex when an adult. In the vast majority of cases Oedipalism exists at the emotional and psychological level. Divinity does not approve of this extreme type of soul co-dependence. Any WHY does God not approve of this ? Because it means that the souls involved cannot move in independence back into HIS embrace. Quote Right
Quote Left I live for goals i don't sleep for dreams Quote Right
Quote Left “Ice is just sleeping water” Quote Right
Quote Left “The devil creeps ever more close, and he stabs me so he knows- how close I am to death indeed. And no matter how my poems plead- he likes to sit and watch me bleed.” Quote Right
Quote Left As George Orwell pointed out, people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -- Richard Grenier Quote Right
Quote Left Flee the captured city, find a new home in sager neighborhoods. Manhattan was the greatest city, now it has become desolate. Quote Right
Quote Left Skinner back and let er bleed. Quote Right
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