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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.”
― Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver

“to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
― Dolly Parton

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!”
― Dolly Parton

“Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”
― Dolly Parton

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
― Dolly Parton

“Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
― Dolly Parton

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”
― Dolly Parton

“I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!”
― Dolly Parton

“We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven