Favorite quotes, poems and profound words

[USFREEDOM911]

Gone From My Sight / By Henry Van Dyke

Gone From My Sight

I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship, at my side, spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until; at length,
she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone."

Gone where?

Gone from my sight. That is all.

She is just as large in mast, hull and spar as she was when she left my side.
And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me -- not in her.

And, just at the moment when someone says,
"There, she is gone,"
there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout,
"Here she comes!"

And that is dying...

[Mott the Hoople]

If you come to a fork in the road take it. - - Yogi Berra

[ThatOwlWoman]

There are lots of people in real life this applies to.....

It's amazing, really.

For real.

Enjoy your evening and your manana.

[Controlled Opposition]

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.” (Walter Cronkite).

[TOP]

"You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise."
Maya Angelou

[Mott the Hoople]

Every day people are straying away from the Church and returning to God. - - Lenny Bruce.

[Iolo/Penderyn]

Soles occidere et redire possunt,
nobis, cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua, una, dormienda.

Suns can go down and come back, but for us. once our brief light goes out, night is forever one, to be slept out.

Catullus, via a fading memory.

[TOP]

"Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet."
Maya Angelou

[Life is Golden]

"Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet."
Maya Angelou

So true. I love Maya Angelou.

[TOP]

So true. I love Maya Angelou.

...as do I