Wrong Moves by Martin Stein

Wrong Moves
by Martin Stein

When the evening breeze
blows softly from the sea
and the moon, beloved
face, shines in your eyes
are you there still?

When shades of icy dark
dare to grasp your heart
will you keep your light
shining for you and me?

When waves of fiery wrath
surround you in a storm
will you resist in peace,
your anchor fast and tight?

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quotes about music,beauty

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once
Robert Browning



Grace was in all her steps, Heav'n in her Eye, In every gesture dignity and love
John Milton

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Lines to an Old Sweetheart by Robert Burns

Lines to an Old Sweetheart
by Robert Burns

ONCE fondly lov'd, and still remember'd dear,
Sweet early object of my youthful vows,
Accept this mark of friendship, warm, sincere,
Friendship!'tis all cold duty now allows.
And when you read the simple artless rhymes,
One friendly sigh for him-he asks no more,
Who, distant, burns in flaming torrid climes,
Or haply lies beneath th' Atlantic roar

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Children Of The Sea by Walter Mallon

Children Of The Sea
by Walter Mallon

As I look out over the ocean,
I can't help but wonder.
For so marvelous an entity,
the sands, the birds, and the sea.

Will I ever reach the end of the horizon?
Or will I stare and wonder away my days?
Dreaming of mythical mermaids,
and how much they mean to me.

I fall asleep to the songs of the seabirds,
singing to me as I begin to dream,
of the beach, the trees, and the water,
and the children of the sea.

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life quote

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day,
in all the thousand small uncaring ways
Stephen Vincent Benet

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quotes about self discovery ,life

So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks
and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast
complexity of their own communication."
Garth Stein




We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out
the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true,
stands before us.
Garth Stein

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Life quote by Charlie Chaplin

I have forgiven mistakes that were unforgivable, I have tried to replace those who were unreplaceable and tried to forget those who were unforgettable. I have done things on impulse. I have been let down by those whom I thought would never let me down but I have also let others down. I have laughed when It was almost impossible to laugh. I have held someone to protect them.

I have made life long friends, I've loved and been loved. I have screamed and jumped for joy, I have lived on love and made eternal promises of love. I have fallen many times. I have cried while listening to music and also when looking at photos. I have called someone just to hear their voice. I have fallen in love with a smile. I have also thought I was going to die from loosing someone special and I did loose them! but I lived! And I still live! I don't allow life to pass me by and neither should you!

Live! What is really good is to fight with determination, embrace life and live it with passion! Loose your battles with class and dare to win because the world belongs to those who dare and life, Life is worth too much to be insignificant.
Charlie Chaplin

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Life quote by charlie chaplin

Each person who goes in our life goes alone; it is because each person is unique
and no one replacing the other. Each person who goes in our life passes us alone
and not only because each person leaves a bit of himself and takes a bit of us..
That is the responsibility of the more beautiful life and proof that people are not by chance.
Charles Chaplin

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Life quotes

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles
the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron





It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, yet to receive
them with a shut and reserved countenance.
Francis Bacon

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nature quotes

I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.
John Vance Cheney

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Happiness quotes

By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves.
In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around
us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.
Sharon Salzberg




Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and
curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.
There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -- or one that is conducive
to loving-kindness.
Pema Chodron

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De qué sirven las manos by Alma Mateos Taborda

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De qué sirven las manos
Alma Mateos Taborda




De qué sirven las manos, si de otras se alejan...,
si no siembran ni sellan paz…, amor…, compromiso;
si de puro egoísmo suelen tornarse viejas
sin querer a otras manos…, sin haber aprendido.

De qué sirven las manos…, si otras manos imploran
y no encuentran respuestas, porque solas están,
si reclaman ayuda…, si se sienten perdidas,
sin hallar otras manos que quieran ayudar.

De qué sirven, me digo, si teniendo caricias,
a otras manos heridas se niegan a curar;
si tan sólo se muestran plagadas de avaricia
y no saben acaso de solidaridad.

De qué sirven las manos, si otras manos perdidas,
necesitan de ayuda para abrirse camino
pero sólo indiferencia les asiste en la vida
y no encuentran respuestas a su amargo destino.

De qué sirven, me digo, si las manos que piden
no encuentran alimento, no se pueden saciar,
si las manos que tienen, se alejan, se prohíben,
por temor de que a ellas les pudiera faltar.

De qué sirven las manos, si no agitan pañuelos,
imitando palomas que conquisten el aire
en favor de ideales que se eleven al cielo,
que rediman al hombre…, y su equidad consagren.

De qué sirven, me digo, si se niegan a unirse
por un mundo maduro precursor de igualdad,
donde todas las manos unidas realicen
un concilio esperado por amor terrenal.

De qué sirven las manos, si ante el hambre del mundo,
otras manos esconden el dorado trigal
y se llenan de gozo, de sabores profundos,
mientras otras suplican un mendrugo de pan.

De qué sirven, me digo, si adolecen de amores,
que no sean los propios crudamente insaciables
y otras manos mendigas exhiben estertores
y derraman vencidas las secuelas del hambre.

De qué sirven las manos, si en un día cualquiera,
no se acercan a otras a ofrecer caridad,
si al dolor del que sufre le levantan fronteras
sin reparar siquiera que claman dignidad.

De qué sirven, me digo, si no rompen cadenas,
si precede a estas manos un rocío de hiel,
si se niegan pudiendo consentir en sus venas
y saber de igualdades, más allá de la piel.

De qué sirven las manos, que no saben ni entienden
el lenguaje de angustias que otras manos expresan;
si por pura avaricia, mezquindades pretenden
al borrar con su dicha, el dolor que otras dejan.

De qué sirven las manos, que comercian los frutos
y que nada comparten con las manos que siembran,
las que son la metáfora de los sueños de luto
y de todos los males en la faz de la tierra.

De qué sirven, me digo, si no elevan unidas
bajo un viento de fuerzas que estremezcan las calles,
las banderas amadas, las banderas queridas,
de equidades sociales que rediman y salven.

De que sirven las manos, de qué sirven me digo,
si carentes de amores a otras manos ignoran,
las que piden caricias, las que piden abrigo,
las que siempre están tristes, las que siempre están solas.

De qué sirven las manos…, de qué sirven, me digo.

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childhood quote

O Innocence, with laughing eyes!
Thou art a cherub from the skies,
A wanderer from heaven.
HARVEY RICE

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love quote

Let them embrace all you do. Let them flow like a timeless melody.
Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that
they never hurt or offend; they just heal and empower.
Steve Maraboli

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inspirational life quotes

Conceptual photography by Terra Kate

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated
through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time,
this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any
other medium and be lost.
Martha Graham




I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking.
Jean Cocteau



Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes
Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;
He keeps all his customers still in arrears
By lending them minutes and charging them years.
Oliver Wendell Holmes



Art-William Whitaker


The art of art, the glory of expression and
the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman



Art-William Whitaker


You can't punish yourself into change. You can't whip yourself into shape.
But you can love yourself into well-being.
Susan Skye

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Nature quotes

I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning.
Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled
along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain
while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once,
the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.
Shannon Hale (Book of a Thousand Days)




How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me
like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.
George Eliot

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Moonlight by by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Moonlight
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As a pale phantom with a lamp
Ascends some ruined haunted stair,
So glides the moon along the damp
Mysterious chambers of the air.

Now hidden in cloud, and now revealed,
As if this phantom, full of pain,
Were by the crumbling walls concealed,
And at the windows seen again.

Until at last, serene and proud
In all the splendour of her light,
She walks the terraces of cloud,
Supreme as Empress of the Night.

I look, but recognize no more
Objects familiar to my view;
The very pathway to my door
Is an enchanted avenue.

All things are changed. One mass of shade,
The elm-trees drop their curtains down;
By palace, park, and colonnade
I walk as in a foreign town.

The very ground beneath my feet
Is clothed with a diviner air;
White marble paves the silent street
And glimmers in the empty square.

Illusion! Underneath there lies
The common life of everyday;
Only the spirit glorifies
With its own tints the sober grey.

In vain we look, in vain uplift
Our eyes to heaven, if we are blind;
We see but what we have the gift
Of seeing; what we bring we find.

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Looking by W.B.yeats

If I make the lashes dark
And the eyes more bright
And the lips more scarlet,
Or ask if all be right
From mirror after mirror,
No vanity's displayed:
I'm looking for the face I had
Before the world was made.
W.B. Yeats

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spirituality quotes

In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day.
Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between
them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions.

Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are
messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life.
Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another.

To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes,
to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can
visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and
who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if
that person could not be trusted to carry it out.
The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.
High Eagle





Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or
action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
Norman Cousins

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inspirational quotes about life,spirituality,self discovery

The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth,
As Love comes brooding down on human hearts,
With bliss that hath no utterance save rich tears.
She floats in fragrance down the smiling dark,
Foldeth a kiss upon the lips of Life--
Curtaineth into rest the weary world--
And shuts us in with all our hid delights.
GERALD MASSEY



Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David Thoreau




O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade;
Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war,
Might never reach me more.
William Cowper





If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are,
here and now. And when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower
in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.
Masaru Emoto

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Evening Solace By Charlotte Bronte

Music:
Until the last moment-YANNI






Evening Solace
Charlotte Bronte

THE human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;
The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,
Whose charms were broken if revealed.
And days may pass in gay confusion,
And nights in rosy riot fly,
While, lost in Fame's or Wealth's illusion,
The memory of the Past may die.

But, there are hours of lonely musing,
Such as in evening silence come,
When, soft as birds their pinions closing,
The heart's best feelings gather home.
Then in our souls there seems to languish
A tender grief that is not woe;
And thoughts that once wrung groans of anguish,
Now cause but some mild tears to flow.

And feelings, once as strong as passions,
Float softly backa faded dream;
Our own sharp griefs and wild sensations,
The tale of others' sufferings seem.
Oh ! when the heart is freshly bleeding,
How longs it for that time to be,
When, through the mist of years receding,
Its woes but live in reverie !

And it can dwell on moonlight glimmer,
On evening shade and loneliness;
And, while the sky grows dim and dimmer,
Feel no untold and strange distress
Only a deeper impulse given
By lonely hour and darkened room,
To solemn thoughts that soar to heaven,
Seeking a life and world to come.


Life
Charlie Chaplin



I have forgiven mistakes that were unforgivable, I have tried
to replace those who were unreplaceable and tried to forget
those who were unforgettable.I have done things on impulse.
I have been let down by those whom I thought would never let
me down but I have also let others down. I have laughed when
It was almost impossible to laugh. I have held someone to
protect them.


I have made life long friends, I've loved and been loved.
I have screamed and jumped for joy, I have lived on love
and made eternal promises of love. I have fallen many times.
I have cried while listening to music and also when looking
at photos. I have called someone just to hear their voice.
I have fallen in love with a smile. I have also thought I was
going to die from loosing someone special and I did loose them!
but I lived! And I still live! I don't allow life to pass
me by and neither should you!


Live! What is really good is to fight with determination,
embrace life and live it with passion! Loose your battles with
class and dare to win because the world belongs to those who
dare and life, Life is worth too much to be insignificant.





Each person who goes in our life goes alone; it is because
each person is unique and no one replacing the other. Each
person who goes in our life passes us alone and not only
because each person leaves a bit of himself and takes a bit of us..
That is the responsibility of the more beautiful life and proof
that people are not by chance.
Charles Chaplin

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