Home quote by charles dickens

Sandra Kuck Art

When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default
of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if
that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call
it by the same good name notwithstanding.
Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

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Inspiring quotes and poems celebrating femininity and womanhood by William Wordsworth,Victor Hugo ,Richard Bach,Osho and Khalil Gibran

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Secret Garden-Sanctuary

Emmanuel Garant Art

And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller between life and death:
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
A perfect Woman, nobly plann'd
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a Spirit still, and bright
With something of an angel light.
William Wordsworth

Richard Johnson Art

The soul gropes in search of a soul, and finds it. And that soul, found and proven, is a woman. A hand sustains you, it is hers; lips lightly touch your forehead, they are her lips; you hear breathing near you, it is she. To have her wholly, from her devotion to her pity, never to be left alone, to have that sweet shyness as, to lean on that unbending reed, to touch, Providence with your hands and be able to grasp it in your arms; God made palpable, what transport! The heart, that dark celestial flower, bursts into a mysterious bloom. You would not give up that shade for all the light in the world! The angel soul is there, forever there; if she goes away, it is only to return; she fades away in a dream and reappears in reality. You feel an approaching warmth, she is there. You overflow with serenity...; you are radiant in your darkness. And the thousand little cares! The trifles that are enormous in this void. The most ineffable accents of the womanly voice used to comfort you, and replacing for you the vanished universe! You are caressed through the soul. You see nothing but you feel yourself adored.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Richard Johnson Art

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
Mahatma Gandhi

Respect the feminine — it is higher, certainly higher, than the male qualities. ... the male mind has tried to repress the feminine and of course because the male is aggressive... he can repress it. The feminine is receptive, surrendering; it knows how to let go, it knows how to adjust, so it has become adjusted even to the male chauvinist attitude. The whole past of humanity is ugly and the reason is that we have not allowed the feminine qualities to blossom. So become more and more receptive, sensitive, creative, loving, dancing, singing — and that’s how you will go on becoming more and more meditative. And the more meditative you are, the more you will find feminine qualities blossoming in you. The moment the male energy becomes feminine a Buddha is born, a Christ is born.
Osho

We will have a more beautiful world if all women — and women are half of the world — are allowed to grow their talents, their genius. It is not a question at all… nobody is higher, nobody is lower. Women are women, men are men; they have differences, but differences don’t make anybody higher or lower. Their differences create their attraction.
Osho

Richrd Johnson Art

Your armor, it shields you from any woman who would destroy
you, sure enough. But unless you let it go, it will shield
you as well from the only one who can love you, nourish
you, save you from your own protection. There is one perfect woman for you. She is singular, not plural.
Richard Bach

... marvelling at her intelligence,and hearing the stillness
of sorrow. I felt an invisible hand drawing me to her.

Every visit gave me a new meaning to her beauty and a new
insight into her sweet spirit, Until she became a book whose
pages I could understand and whose praises I could sing,
but which I could never finish reading.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty
of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open
and secret, which we can understand only by love, and
touch only by virtue; and when we attempt to describe
such a woman she disappears like a vapor.
Khalil Gibran,From The White Torch

Richard Johnson Art

Writers and poets try to understand the truth about
woman. But until this day they have never understood
her heart because, looking upon her through the veil
of desire, they see nothing except the shape of her body.
Or they look upon her through a magnifying glass
of spite and find nothing in her but weakness and submission.
Khalil Gibran

A woman's heart
Khalil Gibran

A woman's heart will not change with time or season;
even if it dies eternally, it will never perish.
A woman's heart is like a field turned into a battleground;
after the trees are uprooted and the grass is burned and
the rocks bones and skulls, it is calm and is silent as if
nothing has happened; for the spring and autumn come at their intervals and resume their work.

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On Culture by José Ortega y Gasset

Paul Cornoyer painting

It presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can.

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Insightful Love quotes

Leonid Afremov Art

Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages.
Marcel Proust

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality … the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
José Ortega y Gasset

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms.The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Paz Octavio

loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Karen Casey

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Canción hacia adentro - Poema de Julia de Burgos

Pintura de Richard Johnson

Canción hacia adentro
Poema de Julia de Burgos

¡No me recuerdes! ¡Siénteme!
Hay un sólo trino entre tu amor y mi alma.

Mis dos ojos navegan
el mismo azul sin fin donde tú danzas.

Tu arco-iris de sueños en mí tiene
siempre pradera abierta entre montañas.

Una vez se perdieron mis sollozos,
y los hallé, abrigados, en tus lágrimas.

¡No me recuerdes! ¡Siénteme!
Un ruiseñor nos tiene en su garganta.

Los ríos que me traje de mis riscos,
desembocan tan sólo por tus playas.

Hay confusión de vuelos en el aire?
¡El viento que nos lleva en sus sandalias !

¡No me recuerdes! ¡Siénteme!
Mientras menos me pienses, más me amas.

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Do not stand at my grave and weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye

Do not stand at my grave and weep
Mary Elizabeth Frye

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.

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Life quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Hugues Merle

A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.
Simone de Beauvoir, After the War

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He hears with gladdened heart by Robert Louis Stevenson

Jules Breton Art
He hears with gladdened heart...Robert Louis Stevenson
He hears with gladdened heart the thunderPeal, and loves the falling dew;He knows the earth above and under -Sits and is content to view.He sits beside the dying ember,God for hope and man for friend,Content to see, glad to remember,Expectant of the certain end

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