"I'm just a girl that needs a little sun, a little rain, an open field to play. Hey, I'm a wildflower, growin' in the sunshine, soakin' up the way of life. I was raised in, runnin' barefoot, bloomin' in a summer shower, ponytail dancin' I can't help it. I'm a wildflower!" ~Janedear Girls~
"There is a pleasure in the pathless wood;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music is its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more."
~Lord Byron~
"A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence." ~Holbrook Jackson
"Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone." ~Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute." ~Rebecca West~
"Who's the bitch now?!" ~Olivia Benson, Law & Order: SVU~"By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear." ~George Herbert~
“Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.” ~Louisa May Alcott~
"Stories wait for endings, but songs are brave things bold enough to sing when all they know is darkness." ~To Write Love on Her Arms~
"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up." ~Pearl Buck~
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway." ~Joyce Meyer~
~"I too can command the winds sir! And I have a hurricane in me that will strip Spain bare if you dare to try me!" *Elizabeth: The Golden Age
"She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes."
~Byron~
"I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer~
~"I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish." ~Marcel Marceau~
~"I am convinced that nothing but the deepest love will induce me to matrimony. So I will end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill." *Elizabeth Bennet - Pride and Prejudice
"There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself." ~Ruth Stout~
~"We are not called to live by human reason. all that matters is obedience to God's Word and His leading in our lives. If God says go, we'll go. If He says stay, we'll stay. When we are in His will, we are in the safest place in the world." *Liu Lao Zhuang
~"I have dreamed thee too long, never seen thee or touched thee, but known thee with all my heart, half a prayer, half a song, thou hast always been with me, though we have always been apart." *Don Quixote de la Mancha - "The Man of la Mancha"
"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
~ Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.” ~William Butler Yeats~
William Wallace: "Go back to England and tell them there that Scotland's daughters and sons are yours no more. Tell them Scotland is free." ~Braveheart~
"In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to God."
~Braveheart~ (Stephen)
"My path is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help."
~Francis Schaeffer~
"All that has ever been is in this moment; all that will be is in this moment. Both are meeting in one living flame in this unique instant of time. This is drama, this is theatre - to be aware of the now." ~Robert Edmond Jones~
