The quotes
Ideas you can feel. Songs for a world gone bananas.
The quotes
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BEAUTY (24)
And the world says: You are here. You are here. You are here.
Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
Pourquoi faudrait-il aimer rarement pour aimer beaucoup?
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Love is nothing but Joy with accompanying idea of external cause.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness—it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
I am just a tiny speck in an infinite sea of stars.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
Beauty is everywhere, not everyone sees it.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.
The duende… Through the empty arch comes a wind, a mental breeze blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search of new landscapes and unknown accents.
Music is the only religion that delivers the good.
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.
It is not down on any map; true places never are.
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Many people wish to be poets because they wish to wear the title, but one should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Why not let the soft animal of your body love what it loves?
Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.