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“Some friends are like desert plants. They survive long periods without water, but when they bloom, they produce the most amazing blossoms.”

Friends Desert Plants

Book:Harvest: The Poetry of Chris Ernest Nelson

Source: Harvest: The Poetry of Chris Ernest Nelson

“IT IS A GOOD THING WHEN HONESTY AND TRUTH AGREE.”

Truth Honesty Agree

Author:Chris Ernest Nelson

“History teaches us about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going. I have always thought of history as a prophylactic against extreme social disorders. If we are aware of the conditions in which such disorders arise, and the way people respond to them, we can better avoid falling victim to their influences. We can better remain true to our moral decency, and to our ideals of liberty and justice. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.”

Teach History Social Justice

Author:Chris Ernest Nelson

“Every person is in the process of becoming. To enter into the world of becoming, he must be able to manipulate the truth about himself. He must believe his own lies about himself until the lies become their own truths.”

Becoming Lies Truths

Author:Chris Ernest Nelson

“Every person is in the process of becoming. To enter into the world of becoming, one must be able to manipulate the truth about oneself. They must believe their own lies about themselves until the lies become their own truths.”

Truth Becoming Lies

Author:Chris Ernest Nelson

“Learning begins with desire, moves on to confusion, then to difficult questions, followed by a range of possibilities, and finally arriving at knowledge.”

Author:Chris Ernest Nelson

“Love may be food if you feed it to the ones you love. But if you want to feed it to yourself, you will starve.”

Love Food Feed Starve

Book:Harvest: The Poetry of Chris Ernest Nelson

Source: Harvest: The Poetry of Chris Ernest Nelson

“Our greatest social responsibility is to demonstrate to all others how to live in this world of hunger, sorrow, and injustice with generosity, dignity, and decency.”

Responsibility Sorrow Dignity Injustice Hunger Generosity Decency

Author:Chris Ernest Nelson

“Tears are the only waters strong enough to carry the immensity of love.”

Love Tears Waters

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“Laughter produces in the air a vibration more closely related to the vibration of God's voice when He commanded the universe to come into being than any other sound.”

God Universe Laughter Vibration

Author:Chris Ernest Nelson

“In a just society, everyone must give up something so that everyone can have something. In a just country, no one should have to give up everything so that someone can have everything.”

Country Justice Give Just

Author:Chris Ernest Nelson

“You want to learn? Find those people who are happiest, those most productively engaged in their own lives and community– get as close to them as you can– and stay there.”

Productive Learn Happiest

Author:Chris Ernest Nelson

“It is wise to master your self, but it is wiser to leave a few rogue thoughts, some few doubts, and some loose ends. It is into the wild and unfinished places that we can grow.”

Wiser Grow Unfinished Master Doubts

Author:Chris Ernest Nelson

“Death is not experienced, it is only witnessed.”

Death Experienced Witnessed

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“We prefer to leave our mistakes in dusty cupboards, when they should be center table, with a flower, coffee and sweet-rolls. Without our mistakes, we wouldn’t be ourselves, we’d be someone else we wouldn’t even like.”

Author:Chris Ernest Nelson

“People see by the light of their own stars. Some nights the stars waver in obscuring mists. I steer a straight course by my own compass. and delight in the mysteries of misguiding stars.”

Light Stars Compass See Course Steer

Author:Chris Ernest Nelson