“Be who you are nothing more nothing less, and let the beauty that you love be the very best. Sing praises to the highest with your feet on the ground, and reach for your brother with the words that you sound, and don't let mistakes be so monumental, and don't let your love be so confidential, and don't let your mind be so darn judgmental, and please let your heart be more influential. Be thankful for all the Spirit provides, And be thankful for all that you can see without eyes, Give thanks to music that keeps us alive, And give thanks to all DJs worldwide.” GivingMindHeartEyeSpiritSoundLove IsMistakeAliveFeetBrotherPleaseHighestPraiseWho You AreThanksBeing ThankfulInfluentialJudgmentalDjsYour BrotherBe Who You AreFeet On The GroundConfidential Author:Michael Franti
“Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves ... Every place was a tilting edge.” PeopleMenChildrenHandsTogetherMistakeAliveFeetColdLuckEdgesBonesAccidentsMeatFreakImprovingHookVigorousBad LuckProspectsEnterprisingHands Together Book:The Annie Dillard reader Source: The Annie Dillard reader
“But what is to be done? Is it possible to infect ourselves on purpose just in order to have the satisfaction of dying beautifully and tranquilly? No! What is to be done? We must live while we are alive, eat dry bread if there is no roast beef, know many women if it is not possible to love a woman, and, in general, we must not dream about orange trees and palms, when under foot are snowdrifts and the cold tundra.” IfsKnowsDoneDreamPurposeOrderAliveTreeFeetDyingColdSatisfactionBreadDryOrangePalmsBeefRoast BeefOrange Trees Author:Dmitry Pisarev
“Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we - because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.” LifeGivingSoulScienceLife IsUniverseEnemyTakenAliveFeetTablesGrantedFogTaken For GrantedCanyons Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“It is the first day because it has never been before and the last day because it will never be again. Be alive, if you can, all through this day - today - of your life. What's to be done? What's to be done? Follow your feet. Put on the coffee. Start the orange juice, the bacon, the toast. Then go wake up your children and your spouse. Think about the work of your hands. Live in the needs of the day.” IfsThinkingNeedsFirstsChildrenDoneHandsTodayLastsAliveFeetWake UpOur ChildrenCoffeeYour ChildrenThis DaySpouseOrangeJuiceToastsLast DayOrange Juice Book:The alphabet of grace Source: The alphabet of grace
“Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.” PeopleFeelsMadeStillsBodyHandsEyeLastsFacesStepsAliveSeaFeetSkyTearsColdRainInfiniteCloudsWaveBillionsStaringIslandsSurvivorSoleCheeksElectricPullingGood DayRippleRowingShipwreckSuffocatingQuicksand Author:Richard M. Nixon
“What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.” ChildrenMotherThreeStrongEasyAliveWeekFeetFoodColdCookingIllChineseCooksBlissCulinaryChickensThickSheerJelly Author:James Beard
“I remember when I was first starting out in the late 50's, and everybody at that time said rock 'n roll was gonna die. I was 15 years old when I started, and I certainly didn't believe that was true. I thought anything that feels this good and makes me want to tap my foot like this can't be a passing fad like everybody says. Of course, they were wrong, and here we are in the 90's and it's alive and well, and getting programmed all over the country, and really all over the world. So it's been a great journey.” WorldWantFeelsYearsFirstsBelieveWellsSaidCountryRememberDiesCoursesAliveJourneyFeetRocksLateStartingPassingPassingsRock N RollRemember WhenFadsStarting OutGreat Journeys Author:Bobby Vee