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over 1 year ago

Do you have any fav quotes? Feel free to share them here Grinning 

I love quotes! Some can be really inspiring and life changing.

Here's one of my favs I try to live my life by Slight smile 

"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you." — Lao Tzu.

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  • over 1 year ago

    Some closing lines from poems that have always stayed with me since school...

    One day he’ll clock on and never clock off
    or clock off and never clock on.

    (My Bus Conductor, Rger McGough) - about a ticket collector with failing kidneys and an acute awareness of his mortality's fragility

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    'No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.
    A four-foot box, a foot for every year.'
    (Mid-Term Break, Seamus Heaney) - about his younger brother, knocked down and killed on the last day of school.
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    "Then found myself listening to The amplified grave ticking of hall clocks
    Where the phone lay unattended in a calm
    Of mirror glass and sunstruck pendulums . . . 
    And found myself then thinking: if it were nowadays,
    This is how Death would summon Everyman.
    Next thing he spoke and I nearly said I loved him."
    (A Call, also by Heaney) - about making a call to his aging parents, and - waiting for his dad to come in from the garden - well, it speaks for itself. 

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  • over 1 year ago

    Some closing lines from poems that have always stayed with me since school...

    One day he’ll clock on and never clock off
    or clock off and never clock on.

    (My Bus Conductor, Rger McGough) - about a ticket collector with failing kidneys and an acute awareness of his mortality's fragility

    -------------------------------

    'No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.
    A four-foot box, a foot for every year.'
    (Mid-Term Break, Seamus Heaney) - about his younger brother, knocked down and killed on the last day of school.
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    "Then found myself listening to The amplified grave ticking of hall clocks
    Where the phone lay unattended in a calm
    Of mirror glass and sunstruck pendulums . . . 
    And found myself then thinking: if it were nowadays,
    This is how Death would summon Everyman.
    Next thing he spoke and I nearly said I loved him."
    (A Call, also by Heaney) - about making a call to his aging parents, and - waiting for his dad to come in from the garden - well, it speaks for itself. 

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