"Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror...."

Emotional, Memory, Heart, Desire, Truth

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"Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror...."

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"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Joy is sacred blessing."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"See beauty everywhere, and let your heart dance with it."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!"

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"Every bond is a bond to sorrow."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom."

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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

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"Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)-Gandalf came by."

Fiction, Smoking, Fantasy, Character

"I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes to only one of which was my small mind directed), glittering white because of the individual ray from the Light which both held and lit it...And the ray was the Guardian Angel of the mote: not a thing interposed between God and the creature, but God's very attention itself, personalized...This is a finite parallel to the Infinite. As the love of the Father and Son (who are infinite and equal) is a Person, so the love and attention of the Light to the Mote is a person (that is both with us and in Heaven): finite but divine, i.e. angelic."

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"There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."

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"Why was I chosen?''Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."

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"His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it."

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

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"The day will bring hope for me," said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?" "So the minstrels say," said A‰omer."Then let us defend it, and hope!"

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