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The earth mother
Loves circles to complete —
So all aspects of life
must be lived


Neil Mach

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CIRCLES OF LIFE

Everything
Turns,
Rotates,
Spins,
Circles,
Loops...
SUZY KASSEM Lady of the silver moon
Enchantress of the night
Protect me and mine within this circle fa...
MADELYN ALT Life is in different stages.
Every stage of life is the foundation for the next stage of life....
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Life has pounded me down
and thrashed me around,
Time and time again,
But I always ge...
SUZY KASSEM She lived, we'll say,
A harmless life, she called a
virtuous life,
A quiet life, whi...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky;
The dew shall wee...
GEORGE HERBERT Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name’s the mother
of the ten thousand things...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,<...
WALT WHITMAN In my errant life I roamed
To learn the secrets of women and men,
Of gods and dreams.
ROMAN PAYNE Though under earth, and throneless now I be
Yet while I lived all earth was under me.
C.S. LEWIS Easter blessings
All life’s sacrifices like autumn leaves
awaken our senses
and pow...
RAMON RAVENSWOOD BASIC LIFE ATTRIBUTES

Four purusharthas or goals of the life be,
So very crystal cle...
MUNINDRA MISRA ENDURANCE

I don't know you,
But I love you,
Just as God loves me and you.
...
SUZY KASSEM How arrogant you are
To think your wretched Self so singular!
The disappointments of this ...
فرید الدین عطار Life is suffering
Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated
Truth is th...
JORDAN B. PETERSON This is an ode to life.
The anthem of the world.
For as there are billions
of differe...
KAMAND KOJOURI This must be
what love is:

a pain so radiant
it cuts through all others.
SARA ELIZA JOHNSON The seasons are shifting, The winter shades lifting,
The springtime is filling
Earth's childre...
DAVID E. BUMBAUGH Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie--
Dust unto dust--
The calm, sweet earth tha...
RALPH CHAPLIN Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie
Dust unto dust
The calm, sweet earth that mothe...
RALPH CHAPLIN This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries ...
EURIPIDES You will not be a mystic until you are like the earth—
both the righteous and the sinner trea...
BAYAZID BISTAMI We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Eaters of Wonder Bread
Must be underbred.
So little to eat.
Where's the wheat?
ROY BLOUNT JR. He who leads
Must then be strong and hopeful as the dawn
That rises unafraid and full of joy<...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Sydney, I'm so happy to see you again. If there's anything I can do for you, please let me know. And...
RICHELLE MEAD TODD: Well, listen, Neil. I-I appreciate this concern, but I-I'm not like you.All right? You, you, y...
TOM SCHULMAN What could my mother be
to yours? What kin is my father
to yours anyway? And how
did ...
VIKRAM CHANDRA confront your greatest fears
voice your biggest problems
acknowledge your tiniest issues CONNOR FRANTA Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust;
Fear not the things thou suffer must;
For, whom ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK I love my mother.

My mother loves my dad.

Those two facts are undeniable.
JOHNA PASSARO THE THREE LAWS OF ALL

You are never to worship a living soul,
Except for three entit...
SUZY KASSEM We shall be notes in that great Symphony
Whose cadence circles through the rhythmic spheres, OSCAR WILDE Late Fragment

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I...
RAYMOND CARVER I learned about life

from life itself,

love I learned in a single kiss
PABLO NERUDA For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE My mother always told me
No monster lived beneath my bed,
But she had failed to warn me ERIN HANSON KINGDOM OF THE WOMB

From her thighs, she gives you life
And how you treat she who gi...
SUZY KASSEM Stages



As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every ...
HERMANN HESSE Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.
He whose worship is directed to a dead thing ...
THOMAS MERTON i do not want to have you
to fill the empty parts of me
i want to be full on my own
<...
RUPI KAUR From her thighs, she gives you life
And how you treat she who gives you life
Shows how muc...
SUZY KASSEM Just Me, Just Me

Sweet Marie, she loves just me
(She also loves Maurice McGhee).
SHEL SILVERSTEIN The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
The head...
WALT WHITMAN The Weight of One Feather"


Given.
Many fear death
Because they already SUZY KASSEM You must be more alive than life.
You must see darkness dance
and hear silence sing.
...
KAMAND KOJOURI Babbage's Three Laws of Difference Engines

First Law: A difference engine must have at le...
GIDEON DEFOE This is what I am, I'll say, to leave this written
excuse. This is my life.
Now it is clea...
PABLO NERUDA O Life,
How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough,
Enough of life in so much! — her...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I know: yes, no, even I must tear off
The delicate daisy petals.
Everyone on earth is dest...
ANNA AKHMATOVA The way of love is not
a subtle argument.

The door there
is devastation. RUMI No I did not call in sick to work today
No I'm not out hanging with my friends
There's no ...
COLBIE CAILLAT I grab
a small container
of glitter.

Because this day,
this wonderful,
LISA SCHROEDER I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth...

without taxes
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI For a mother is the only person on earth
Who can divide her love among ten children
And each...
ANON. He was footprints in the snow.

Not all loves are meant to last.
Some are meant to gr...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN Gods must be crazy
Flowers must be daisy
Clouds must be hazy
Winds must be lazy
...
HEENASHREE KHANDELWAL If you’ve managed to do one good thing,
the ocean doesn’t care.
But when Newton’s ap...
ELLEN BASS Raeanne
Mirror, Mirror

When I look into a
mirror,
it is her face I see. ELLEN HOPKINS So the earth is shaking
Here the word's faking
As there's no time for lies.
Kiss a...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Best Life of Lives I've Ever Lived :
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans,
August 15, 2016
PETRA HERMANS The Gentle Gardener

I'd like to leave but daffodils to mark my little way,
To leave ...
EDGAR A. GUEST The Days were a clan that mighta lived long
But Ben Day’s head got screwed on wrong
That...
GILLIAN FLYNN Once to swim I sought the sea-side,
There to sport among the billows;
With the stone of ma...
ELIAS LöNNROT Sometimes, somehow...
I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,
that mourns over t...
TOBA BETA if the rain you left behind
for me to deal with
taught me anything in this life,
it w...
HANNAH CAO Smile though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it's breaking
When there are clouds, i...
JUDY GARLAND If it all be for naught, for nothingness at last,
Why does God make the world so fair?
Why spi...
ANON. ...It’s hard to watch
the game we make of love,
like everyone’s playing checkers
...
ANDREA GIBSON The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden<...
ALLEN GINSBERG But I remain'd, whose hopes were dim,
Whose life, whose thoughts were little worth,
To wan...
ALFRED TENNYSON So sweet and delicious do I become,
when I am in bed with a man
who, I sense, loves and en...
VERONICA FRANCO Love Was
Love Will Be
But Most of All,
Love is.
Life Cannot Be Without It
I...
CINDY MARTINUSEN COLOMA The Clock on the Morning Lenape Building

Must Clocks be circles?
Time is not a circl...
JERRY SPINELLI oxygen

Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even,
while it calls the earth its ...
MARY OLIVER Have to Find

...life
...is
...a—
...gamble
...after
...all.
ELLEN HOPKINS Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker

do you remember
when the earth was just a bab...
MARCUS AMAKER Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins ...
ALFRED TENNYSON It’s funny because my life is full of this:

you think you’re escaping, until you run ...
CHANGDICTATOR The world is thinning
and the earth...it's still spinning

my world is thinning
...
SANOBER KHAN There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving mother
She takes care of you when you are...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA MOTHER IS WATER

I wish I could
Shower your head with flowers
And anoint your fe...
SUZY KASSEM To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of chi...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Song of myself
Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth!
Earth of the slumbering and liquid...
WALT WHITMAN With fire and sword the country round
Was wasted far and wide,
And many a childing mother...
ROBERT SOUTHEY It all goes around
It all goes around
The planet goes around the sun
It all goes arou...
ANN LECKIE This,” Neil flicked his finger to indicate the two of them, “isn’t worthless.”
“There...
NORA SAKAVIC Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I grab
a small container
of glitter.

Because this day,
this wonderful,
LISA SCHROEDER Scenes from the Playroom

Now Lucy with her family of dolls
Disfigures Mother with a...
R.S. GWYNN It is not possible to express the most precious insights,
To see all that craves to be seen, <...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Who really owns the Earth?
Corporations? Governments?
Charity Organizations?
Or... ANTHONY T. HINCKS Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;
Therefore, we must be saved by hope....
REINHOLD NIEBUHR What is Friendship when complete?
'Tis to share all joy and grief;
'Tis to lend all due rel...
ANNE FINCH Courage must come from the soul within,
The man must furnish the will to win.
So figure it ou...
EDGAR A. GUEST He knows all my thoughts.
He knows all I’ve ever done
and He loves me all the same. KAMAND KOJOURI Embrace contradictions
for they make up
all of life:
You will eternally be
loo...
KAMAND KOJOURI No-one loves another
More than he loves whatever
another within may have
That is pa...
FERNANDO PESSOA We are all in the same boat,
boat of life. Does not seem
to be a rudder with oarsman.
ROBERT TRABOLD Let us arise and go now
to the Isle of Manisfree
and live the true blue simple life
o...
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NEIL GAIMAN In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glitt...
NEIL GAIMAN The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, ...
NEIL PASRICHA Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?
NEIL GAIMAN Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragi...
NEIL GAIMAN Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or w...
NEIL GAIMAN There's none so blind as those who will not listen.
NEIL GAIMAN Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell u...
NEIL GAIMAN There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.
NEIL GAIMAN For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of...
NEIL GAIMAN She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap...
NEIL GAIMAN The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said...
NEIL GAIMAN For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure ...
NEIL GAIMAN It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't ...
NEIL GAIMAN There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.
NEIL GAIMAN On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Co...
NEIL GAIMAN They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one...
NEIL GAIMAN The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be...
NEIL GAIMAN The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.
NEIL GAIMAN You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.
'You have a very funny way of showing it,' ...
NEIL GAIMAN Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don'...
NEIL GAIMAN Oh- my twitchy witchy girl
I think you are so nice,
I give you bowls of porridge
And ...
NEIL GAIMAN I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by weari...
NEIL GAIMAN Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she ...
NEIL GAIMAN Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.
NEIL GAIMAN Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to...
NEIL GAIMAN We are small but we are many
We are many we are small
We were here before you rose
We...
NEIL GAIMAN I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.
NEIL GAIMAN The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMAN The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We ke...
NEIL GAIMAN It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning,...
NEIL GAIMAN But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMAN How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
"I swear it," said the other mother. "I s...
NEIL GAIMAN Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
NEIL GAIMAN I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ev...
NEIL GAIMAN I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
NEIL GAIMAN You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
NEIL GAIMAN I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody...
NEIL GAIMAN You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.
NEIL GAIMAN