Sometimes you have to leave...and it's difficult...I had to, not long ago ...so tonight I try to find comfort in some old texts I keep in my copybooks
From Khalil Gibran
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Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn onto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.
And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of reaping, he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked seaward; and he beheld the ship coming with the mist.
Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul.
But he descended the hill, a sadness came upon him, and he thought in his heart: How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.
Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?
Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot whithdraw from them without a burden and an ache....
.....Fain would I take with me all that is here. But how shall I ?
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that give it wings. Alone must it seek the ether.
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from Oprah Winfrey
It is confidence in our bodies, monds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in and new lessons to learn, which is what life is all about.
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from Eleanor Roosevelt
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason,turn his back on life.
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from Thoreau
If a man doen't keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
