Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
NovalisNovalis Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
NovalisNovalis The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
NovalisNovalis Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
NovalisNovalis The badge of honesty is simplicity.
NovalisNovalis Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
NovalisNovalis Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
NovalisNovalis To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
NovalisNovalis Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
NovalisNovalis The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
NovalisNovalis We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
NovalisNovalis Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
NovalisNovalis There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
NovalisNovalis A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
NovalisNovalis If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
NovalisNovalis Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
Juwairiyyah OlgarJuwairiyyah Olgar
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Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven’t learned a thing until you take action and use it.
Ken BlanchardKen Blanchard Find what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might.
Earl NightingaleEarl Nightingale Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.
Brian TracyBrian Tracy Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.
Eric ThomasEric Thomas A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth