The earth is a beautiful inhabited garden!

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The connections we weave support our world

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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Anger makes you angry

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your engergy and keep you from love.

- Leo Buscaglia

Rise like a phoenix from the ashes

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Pain makes you stronger. Tears make you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser. So thank the past for a better future.

- Unknown

Follow your heart, not your eyes

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Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

from The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life's light and shadows

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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

The reality of dreams

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Reality

Met you by surprise, I didn't realize

That my life would change forever

Saw you standing there, I didn't know I care

There was something special in the air.

Dreams are my reality

The only kind of real fantasy

Illusions are a common thing

I try to live in dreams

It seems as if it's meant to be.

Dreams are my reality

A different kind of reality

I dream of loving in the night

And loving seems all right

Although it's only fantasy.

If you do exist, honey, don't resist

Show me a new way of loving

Tell me that it's true

Show me what to do

I feel something special about you.

Dreams are my reality

The only kind of reality

Maybe my foolishness is past

And maybe now at last

I'll see how the real thing can be

Dreams are my reality

A wondrous world where I like to be

I dream of holding you all night

And holding you seems right

Perhaps that's my reality.

- Richard Sanderson