the flames are silent,
Peace is violent,
Tears are frozen
’cause massacre was chosen.
~~ 26/11– Mumbai terror attack memories
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as ...
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our skins are still flushed
from the t...
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When rain bends down the bough;
And I sh...
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The candles are lit,
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because its vastness has chosen
all warmth of our lives as we...
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I travel on. Who knows wher...
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our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we ...
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Need less:
This is the way
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Surrender is a jou...
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Three things have a limited threshold:
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Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves ...
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Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
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TERRY PRATCHETT ...flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender s...
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Shakes out her rain drenched hair,
Tho you should...
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For humanity to co-exist:
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Every...
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and make no outward show,
But what it means to lose you,
no one will ...
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as fleetingly beautiful
as a mother’s tears
and a father’s pranks SANOBER KHAN there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI My child, I know you're not a child
But I still see you running wild
Between those floweri...
ANTONIA MICHAELIS Memories
fall
like
snowflakes
upon
my dreams.
The snowflak...
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On
My
Travels
i have been
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and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of t...
ANONYMOUS what do you miss
do they miss you
when they're around
do they support your peace
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just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands
th...
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and moments of terro...
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A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
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The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
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That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
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If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
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If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
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Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
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"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
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Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
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Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
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One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ...
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re...
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