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“We Are All the Same Listen to the reeds as they sway apart; Hear them speak of lost friends. At birth, you were cut from your bed, Crying and grasping in separation. Everyone listens, knowing your song. You yearn for others who know your name, And the words to your lament. We are all the same, all the same, Longing to find our way back; Back to the one, back to the only one.”

Knows Way Love Song Names Lost Speak Knowing Cutting Cry Birth Bed Longing Awakening Separation Grasping Lament Reeds Lost Friend

Author:Rumi

“I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.”

Littles Long Has Beens I Can Remember Mother Rooms Music Four Tunes Organs Tied Living Room Reeds Tied Up

Author:Mary Lou Williams

“To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.”

Doe Spirit Ancient Weed Marijuana Living Things Vibrations Reeds

Author:Steve Lacy

“Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.”

World Next Journey Fields Travel Projects Concepts Ancient Afterlife Life Journey Reeds Sluggish Sedentary Ancient Egyptian

Book:The Songlines

Source: The Songlines

“All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life.”

Our Lives Wind Quiet Blow Core Emptiness Hollow Reeds

Book:Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives

Source: Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives

“From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.”

Ifs Sweet Patient Sugar Worms Be Patient Grapes Silk Sour Reeds Cocoons Sour Grapes Something Sweet

Author:Rumi

“At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.”

Knows Firsts Enough Students College Smart Smarter Reeds

Book:Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone

Source: Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone

“I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.”

Stills Earth Happiness Water Dark White Garden Stones Rose Clouds Delight Grass Sat Colour Yellow Pool Flags Pale Smooth Weeping Lilies Reeds Dark Clouds Water Lily Pale Yellow

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.”

Heart Long Home Walks Consciousness Fingers Glad Coming Home Afternoon Nurse Twilight Toes Inferiority Reeds Saddened Long Walks Chilly Fingers And Toes

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.”

Strong Strength Wind Roots Arguing Firm Torn Avoided Oaks Reeds Bending Strong Winds

Book:Aesop without morals: the famous fables, and a life of Aesop, newly translated and edited by Lloyd W. Daly. Illustrated by Grace Muscarella

Source: Aesop without morals: the famous fables, and a life of Aesop, newly translated and edited by Lloyd W. Daly. Illustrated by Grace Muscarella

“I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.”

Thinking Years Looks Hands Obsession Obsessed Looking Good Hand In Hand Reeds

Author:Linda Evans

“I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.”

Wanted Poetry Lines Pure Rain Awkward Orchestra Hollow Reeds

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.”

People Strong Rocks Periods Pops Punk Punk Rock Reeds

Author:Arto Lindsay

“From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For awhile till it sleeps In its own little Lake. And thence at departing, Awakening and starting, It runs through the reeds And away it proceeds, Through meadow and glade, In sun and in shade, And through the wood-shelter, Among crags in its flurry, Helter-skelter, Hurry-scurry.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

“When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.”

Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

“Rock & Roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back the beat so you could dream. A whole generation running with a Fender bass...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?Perhaps I should die. After all, all the great blues singers did die. But life is getting better now.I don't want to die. Do I? - Lou Reed (1965-1968)”

People Want Should Whole Dream Running Life Is Dies Generations Rocks Dying Beats Singers Get Better Why Not Bass Great People Wanting To Die Reeds Better Now

Author:Legs McNeil

“I always thought it was more interesting to think about Reed Richards. As you know, he had the ability to stretch, and sexually, that would seem to be a great asset in many areas.”

Thinking Knows Seems Ability Interesting Areas Assets Sexually Reeds

Author:Stan Lee

“If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.”

Ifs Knows Made Night Imagine Bills Clinton Blow Acquire Imagine That All Night Reeds

Author:Ryan Adams

“I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the 'hollow reed'.”

Information Hollow Forks Reeds Shamanism Tuning

Author:Tom Kenyon

“Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life’s uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our lives worthless, our days an endless circular tread. Without God we stand condemned, doomed to a life without the precious gift of hope.”

Our Lives Endless Doomed Threatened Worthless Crushed Reeds Without God Bruised Precious Gifts Uncaring

Book:The Innocent Libertine (Heirs of Acadia Book #2)

Source: The Innocent Libertine (Heirs of Acadia Book #2)

“The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.”

People Way Matter Facts Sex Drug Matter Of Fact Reeds

Author:Julian Casablancas

“If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.”

Ifs Feels Would Be Musician Bob Helpless Dylan Reeds

Author:Toby Stephens

“Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.”

Hands Names Walks College Degrees Prime Beef Bachelors Reeds Thesis Diploma

Author:David Eddings

“Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.”

Giving Mind Humans Body Spirit Prayer Achieve Assembly Harmonious Frail Reeds Unshakable

Author:Alexis Carrel

“I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!”

Fashion Sexy Hiding Reeds Underwater Ponytails

Author:Kevin Costner

“Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.”

Firsts Littles Has Beens Kids Heard Blood Let Me Honey Little Kid Jimmy Reeds Let Me Go Don't Let Me Go

Author:Billy Gibbons

“I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.”

Kids Arms Couple Soldier Legs Hospitals Wounded Reeds Wounded Soldier

Author:Jeff Daniels

“Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts.”

Source: Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage

“What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after-who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Should Whole Lasts Enjoy Answers Hell Worst Humorous Witty Whole Life What If Drag Reeds Slim Enjoy It While It Lasts

Author:Woody Allen

“Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, “Identity Thief,” and Rex Reed, who’s a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don’t know what the right “ism” for it is, but I think that there’s a level of that that’s happening that’s certainly not okay.”

Thinking Knows Lasts Levels Known Identity Happenings Okay Weight Critics Bullying Thieves Frontiers Commentary Reeds Isms Not Okay Designation Melissa

Author:Josh Gad

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