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“May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.”

Knows May Happiness Joy Rooms Teaching Possibility Wall Laughter Window Christmas Holiday Holiday Season Best Holiday Your Wall Holiday Spirit Great Holiday

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.”

Mind Heart May Path Advice Wall Standing

Author:Bodhidharma

“To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.”

World Love Needs May Desire Stars Sky Figures Sweet Wall Lovers Red Rose Snow Imaginary Strain Red Rose Imaginary World

Author:Williston Fish

“With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.”

Wells May Soul Adventure Wall Shadow Concern Consistency Self Reliance Misunderstood Reliance Inconsistency Great Souls Little Minds

Book:Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

“Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.”

May Care Behinds Wall Listening Take Care

Book:Gulistan or Rose Garden

Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden

“What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.”

Men May Shows Eye Desire Force Teach Wall Fool Weather Multitudes Interiors Casualties Learning More

Author:William Shakespeare

“I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.”

“It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.”

May Art Rooms Wall Pride Lovers Great Men Devoted Vans Living Room Collectors Prospects Art Lovers Room Wall Living Room Wall

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.”

May Important Women Building Wall Healthy Boundaries Fence Bricks Brick Wall Picket Fences Healthy Boundaries

Author:Amy Dickinson

“Laughter shall drown the raucous shout; And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin, May they be strong to keep hate out And hold love in.”

May Hate Strong Wall Laughter Rings Old Love

Author:Louis Untermeyer