John J. Geddes quotes
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“Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.”
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“December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.”
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“Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.”
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“The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.”
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“I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.”
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“I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.”
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“When I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears.”
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“It must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul.”
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“Summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows.”
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“Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths.”
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“I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind.”
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“Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.”
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“We fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves.”
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“Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable.”
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“The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart.”
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“And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now.”
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“You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands.”
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“A sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing.”
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“That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...”
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“I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short.”
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“The religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky.”
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“I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me.”
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“When we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we'll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls.”
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“Each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way.”
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“I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath”
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“Some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart.”
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“If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone.”
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“I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists”
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“You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.”
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“I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon.”
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“I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been.”
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“Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know.”
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“Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.”
-- John J. Geddes
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