“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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“Whatever you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.” – Haruki Murakami

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Cooper’s Hawk in Central Park.

 

sparrow and web

“If I can fool a bug…I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.”

– E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.

 Emily Dickinson

 

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. – Thomas Huxley

A dog can never tell you what she knows from the
smells of the world, but you know, watching her,
that you know
almost nothing.

Mary Oliver

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

Maya Angelou

“So we beat on, boats against  the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Celebrating the novel’s 90th birthday, not bad old sport!

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.