Dreams & Dreamers

"I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?"

- Edgar Allen Poe, American poet

A dream realized is no longer a dream. That is why a dream will always remain a dream within a dream.

- Ghostwise

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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

- Oscar Wilde


A dreamer was there first.

- Ghostwise

Freedom!

“We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Ghost's order are - freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom to believe and freedom to express but all these are supersede by freedom of choice.

- Ghostwise

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"No man is free who is not master of himself."

- Epictetus (AD 55?-135?), Greek Stoic philosopher


No man is free who is not free to choose.

- Ghostwise

Kindness & Temples

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

- Mark Twain


For kindness touches the hearts of all men and beast.

- Ghostwise

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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."


- Dalai Lama

A philosophy often forgotten in the building of temples.

- Ghostwise

Poem & Life

A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words."

- Robert Frost

And a poem ends with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness.

- Ghostwise

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"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

- Paul Valery (1874-1945), French poet


The same thing can also be said about Life.

- Ghostwise

Life & Death

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

- Richard Bach


Make it a good reason why you're not dead - yet.

- Ghostwise

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

- Josh Billings


And satisfaction comes from how well you play those cards.

- Ghostwise

Man & Prejudice.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)


If reason cannot rule the day, love them or leave them.

- Ghostwise

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I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)


No, he is not. He did not hate himself - equally.

- Ghostwise

Sleep

Some praise the Lord for Light,

The living spark;

I thank God for the Night

The healing dark.

- Robert William Service, "Weary", first lines


Those that can’t embrace the dark will curse the light.

- Ghostwise

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Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge.

- Marlene Dietrich, 1962

"I don’t like to sleep alone. No one does. Do you?"

- Ghostwise

Songs & Melody

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

- Pete Seeger

When there is nothing left but despair, all there is left besides is the songs to sing.

- Ghostwise

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I firmly believe that there was an ancient language, the language of the melodies that make us all be understood. The melody of ancient times must resound in our souls so that we may have a human life. The ancient melody, the so many times forgotten melody, the melody of love.

- József Szombatfalvi


The timeless melody of love needs no interpretation.

- Ghostwise

Humour & Dinner

"Well, dinner would have been splendid…if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess."

- Sir Winston Churchill


Be careful when inviting a humorist to dinner - he'll laugh at your meal.

- Ghostwise

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The problem with those bumper stickers that warn against tailgating, is that I have to get really close to the person's car to read them.

- John Alejandro King


What did it said? - "If you can read this, you're...." Bang!

- Ghostwise

Spirit & House.

"He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all."

- Spanish Maxim

If you have to choose between losing money, friends and yourself; if possible don’t lose any, if not don’t lose yourself.

- Ghostwise

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"Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well."

-Elbert Hubbard


Many who expounds the greatness of the spirit forgets – “if the house is weak, how can the spirit be strong, for long.”

- Ghostwise

Joy & Guilt.

When I speak the truth, it gives me such joy. When I speak with love, it gives me such joy. When I do things with love, it gives me such joy inside. The intention of the enlightened one is action based on pure morality and the highest integrity because that is the natural state of being...To be selfless is your natural state of being. To be loving is your natural state of being. To be compassionate is your natural state of being. Come to your natural state of being.

- Swami Sai Premananda


We have forgotten our natural state of being – that we were born good. (人之初性本善) Let us return to our natural state of being.

- Ghostwise

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

-Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)


Long is the guilt it left behind.

- Ghostwise

Success & Formula

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955),


And there I thought Mr. Einstein only knows the formula E = MC².

- Ghostwise

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

- Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)


He is also right of course. But he also did not come across the formula: A = X+Y+Z.

- Ghostwise

Wisdom & Virtue

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

- David Starr Jordan


A wise man is not necessary a virtuous man.

- Ghostwise

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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

- Charles Dickens


Before you debate which is better, ask yourself - which makes you happier?

- Ghostwise

Life & Purpose

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

- John Burroughs


In short, I still have things I want to do.

- Ghostwise

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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

- Robert Byrne


And a life of purpose is to have things you want to do, for others and for yourself.

- Ghostwise

Grief

"Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."

- Benjamin Disraeli


Grieve and then let go. Grief is too heavy a burden to carry for long.

- Ghostwise

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"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


And Grief is too heavy a burden to carry alone.

- Ghostwise

Love & Hate.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

- Andre Gibe


Most people would rather to be loved for what they are not than to be hated for what they are.

- Ghostwise

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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

- Charles Caleb Colton


We love some persons because we do not know them; and because we do not know them, we think we love them.

- Ghostwise

Old Age & Wisdom

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

- Sara Teasdale

Whatever we get, the price always seem too high.

- Ghostwise

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

- Tom Wilson

And Wisdom got left behind.

- Ghostwise

Kiss

"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it."

- Christian Nestell Bovee


Please don't sanctify anything without passion.

- Ghostwise

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"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point."

- Mistinguette


And I always get my punctuations confused.

- Ghostwise

Words

No time. Saddest words ever spoken or written.

- Og Mandino


The saddest words for ghosts are: “All the time in the world.”

- Ghostwise

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Words are things; and a small drop of ink
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands,
perhaps millions, think.

- Lord Byron, (1788-1824)


To one too lazy to think, millions of words are just but drops of ink.

- Ghostwise

Love

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

- Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983)


The second hardest-learned lesson: that they, and us only want “our” kind of love.

- Ghostwise

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If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.

- J.K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone


He doesn’t understand Harry Potter either.

- Ghostwise

Life - Decisions

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

- Jean de La Fontaine


So we may as well choose the more interesting path.

- Ghostwise

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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.

- Søren Kierkegaard


Which is why Nike sells so well – because they “just do it”

- Ghostwise

Hearts

I'll tell you how the sun rose
— A ribbon at a time.

- Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)


I’ll tell you how a heart broke
- Without a sound

- Ghostwise

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A heart, a heart that hurts,
Is a heart, a heart that works.

- Juliana Hatfield‎


We wish we still have hearts that hurt.

- Ghostwise