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Look at this fog. The damp gets right into your bones. It's doing my chest no good at all. I'll need a vapour bath." Bryant pulled down his scarf and peered over the sodden hedge. Dew had formed on his bald head and ears. He resembled a minor Tolkien character. "You're getting old before your time," warned May. "I can't imagine what you'll look like in your eighties." "I'm ageing gracefully, which means not trying to look like a member of Concrete Blimp." "I assume you mean Led Zeppelin...


Christopher Fowler


#old-age #age

Happily Single is holding out for the best and letting go of the rest. It’s saying “I will and I can” to YOURSELF before you say “I do” to someone else.


Mandy Hale


#finding-yourself #happily-single #happiness #happy #holding-out-for-the-best

Others, I am not the first, Have willed more mischief than they durst: If in the breathless night I too Shiver now, 'tis nothing new. More than I, if truth were told, Have stood and sweated hot and cold, And through their veins in ice and fire Fear contended with desire. Agued once like me were they, But I like them shall win my way Lastly to the bed of mould Where there's neither heat nor cold. But from my grave across my brow Plays no wind of healing now, And fire and ice within me fight Beneath the suffocating night.


A.E. Housman


#death #desire #fear #fight #fire

as jolaha ka maram na jana, jinh jag ani pasarinhh tana; dharti akas dou gad khandaya, chand surya dou nari banaya; sahastra tar le purani puri, ajahu bine kathin hai duri; kahai kabir karm se jori, sut kusut bine bhal kori; No one could understand the secret of this weaver who, coming into existence, spread the warp as the world; He fixed the earth and the sky as the pillars, and he used the sun and the moon as two shuttles; He took thousands of stars and perfected the cloth; but even today he weaves, and the end is difficult to fathom. Kabir says that the weaver, getting good or bad yarn and connecting karmas with it, weaves beautifully.


Kabir


#fate #mystery #nature #norns #old-songs

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.


Arthur Golden


#beauty #melancholy #memoirs-of-a-geisha #beauty

Dream Song: In the heavens A noise, Like the rustling of the trees.


Frances Densmore


#old-songs #beauty

Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They were far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful.


Lois McMaster Bujold


#cage #hawk #miles-vorkosigan #unrequited-love #warrior-s-apprentice

Possibilities are a mysterious beauty. They tease us to explore while our inner child cheers because an adventure is waiting.


Jeanne McElvaney


#being-happy #change-your-life #gotospirit-com #jeanne-mcelvaney #life-purpose

[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.


Anne Lamott


#golden-calves #holy-beauty #jesus #worship #beauty

Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.


John Green


#cold #death #death






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