Quotes ::

Compelling Words I live by::


"A person becomes a person through other people"

"We are put on earth for a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love" :: William Blake

"Our common human hospitality longs to find room for those who are left out"

"It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough. If only our hearts were capable of holding more and reaching further." :: Charles Spurgeon

"No man ever saw God and lived. And yet, I shall not live until I see God. And when I see him, I shall never die." :: John Donne

"Find the real world, give it endlessly away, grow rich flinging gold to all who ask. Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance there with you - cheek to cheek." :: Rumi

"The pregnant heart is driven to hopes that are the wrong size for this world." :: Jack Gilbert

"I felt I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge." :: Gwendolyn Brooks

"This is a desperate thing to attempt." "It is," agreed Armistead.  "But the issue is with the Almighty, and we must leave it his hands." :: General Garnett, Confederate Army, preparing to attack the Union, Little Round Top, Gettysburg

"You ask me if the thought of death does not alarm me," wrote one soldier to his sister. "I will say that I do not wish to die... I myself am as big a coward as eny could be. but give me the bullet before the coward when all my friends and companions are going forward." :: unknown Confederate solider at Gettysburg

"No sane person would walk alone for a thousand yards across open fields plowed by exploding shells, knowing that if he made it that far, grim men with rifles were waiting to shoot at him during the next three hundred yards. But if his comrades were going forward, he couldn't let them down by lagging behind. His fear of their contempt for his cowardice was greater than his fear of those shells and bullets." :: James McPherson, Hallowed Ground

"All good men must rally" :: Robert E. Lee

"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart."  :: Phyllis Theroux

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