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“Quotes”

I've tried to do this many ways before: notebooks, journals, post-it notes; almost anything you can think of. I've always wanted somewhere to record all the quotes that are important to me, or that impact me in some way, or that I find amusing, or that I just think are beautiful. I could never keep the written journals going. I would make a

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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

- "The Road Not Taken", Robert Frost

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so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens.

- "The Red Wheelbarrow", William Carlos Williams

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If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

- Sara in My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult