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«A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.»
Author: James Dickey
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
hoping, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, outside, poet, rain, stands, strike out, struck
«But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my windowin one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.She will look in at me with her thin arms extended,offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.»
Author: William Collins
| Keywords:
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«America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
America, destroyed, falter, faltering, falters, freedoms, freedom of the will, from the, lose, Only in America, outside, The America
«. . . it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
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«As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
answers, believes, clouds, fulfillment, ideal, look for, outside, solutions, The Clouds
«A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
discovers, finally, inward, outside, physical, source, The Source, turned, turns
«A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.»
«Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Peace
| Keywords:
circumstances, outside, peace, unaffected
«After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
after all, beginning, Eve, garden, inside, in the beginning, mistaken, outside, these, The Beginning, The Garden, years
«Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
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