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… to me, you are perfect
In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
– Maurice Sendak
You know it’s funny what a young man recollects? ‘Cause I don’t remember bein’ born. I don’t recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don’t know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.
Forrest Gump
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
A.W. Tozer
If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.
Noah Calhoun
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho
He cannot ravish. He can only woo.
C.S. Lewis
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes… After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.
Donald Miller
Romeo and Juliet
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David Thoreau
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
Heraclitus
Where and how you begin/end the story will shape and determine what story you’re telling.
Rob Bell
We shall never cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T.S Eliot
