Adages & Proverbs

“Thou Son, O how unlike the Father! First God Almighty comes with a Thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.”–William Blake

So old and rung out so much but ah so very true…

[size=150]This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet [/size]

“Pitying I wept to see the woe
That Love & Beauty undergo,
To be consumed in burning Fires
And in ungratified desires,”–Wm. Blake

It takes all worlds to make a kind.

Blake paraphrase–
“A truth when told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you could invent.”

“. . .God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is.”–Wm. Blake

[size=150]A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.” [/size]
― Rumi

[size=150]"Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall and falling,
they’re given wings.” [/size]
― Rumi

[size=150]Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. [/size]–Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

[size=150]The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. [/size]
G.K. Chesterton

[size=150]Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.[/size]
–William Blake

[size=150]But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.” [/size]
― Anne Brontë

[size=200]“What is Love without Love returned?”[/size] - i dunno who said that do you?

[size=200]- Genuine![/size]

“I find that I am at two with Nature.”–Woody Allen
edited for exact quote

I soooooooo get what Woody was saying.

“You cannot practice too rigid a fast from the charms of worldy talk.”–Fenelon

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom in your hands?
(Kahlil Gibran).

My house says to me,
“Do not leave me for here dwells your past.”
And the road says to me,
“Come and follow me, for I am your future.”
And I say to both my house and the road,
If I stay here, there is a going in my staying;
And if I go, there is a staying in my going …"
Kahlil Gibran

shivers…

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed …
But never the one with whom you have wept.