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Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.
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Hugo Hamilton (The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood)
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The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.
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Paulo Coelho (The Pilgrimage)
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Sustain joy by anchoring yourself with gratitude.
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C. Toni Graham
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She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.
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Sharon Maas (Of Marriageable Age)
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People’s confidence in their abilities influences how they approach life. Their dreams are likely anchored to what they feel they can achieve.
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Raoul Davis Jr. (Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life)
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It's important to stand still sometimes. Think of it as a little rest in the long journey of your life. This is your harbor. And your boat is just dropping anchor here for a little while. And after you're well rested, you can set sail again.
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Satoshi Yagisawa (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1))
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We have a knowledge of harmony, anchored deep within. It is this knowledge that enables us, at every instant, to apprehend quality in our lives and, on the rare occasions when everything is in perfect harmony, to appreciate it with the apposite intensity. And I am not referring to the sort of beauty that is the exclusive preserve of Art. Those who feel inspired, as I do, by the greatness of small things will pursue them to the very heart of the inessential where, cloaked in everyday attire, this greatness will emerge from within a certain ordering of ordinary things and from the certainty that all is as it should be, the conviction that it is fine this way.
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Muriel Barbery (The Elegance of the Hedgehog)
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The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflected all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected on the dark sea of time.
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Greg Weisman
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Be strong. Even when you can't be.
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Saim .A. Cheeda
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For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real.
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Richard Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb)
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True kindness is an anchor that drops deep into the heart and you feel it while it’s dropping. Meanwhile, untrue kindness is merely a condition of the face.
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C. JoyBell C.
“
Every time you try and fail,
Every time your hope gets stuck in the deeps,
And you wonder just how you'd get through the sail-
Don't forget that underneath your pain,
Is an anchor of great strength and fortitude
Keep digging until you find it...
And when you do,
RISE!
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Chinonye J. Chidolue
“
When you hang on to your past, you are gripping an anchor that is swiftly moving to the bottom of the ocean. Sure, you have something to hang on to, but you are drowning, too.
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Brooks Palmer (Clutter Busting: Letting Go of What's Holding You Back)
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I get it, she's your rock. Your anchor in the storm. ~Bo~
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Lucian Bane (No Mercy (Mercy, #2))
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Every girl and every woman, has the potential to make this world a better place, and that potential lies in the act of thinking higher thoughts and feeling deeper things. When women and girls, everywhere, begin to see themselves as more than inanimate objects; but as beautiful beings capable of deep feelings and high thoughts, this has the capacity to create change all around. The kind of change that is for the better. Remember: High in the head and deep in the heart. Antlers on your mind and anchors in your heart.
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C. JoyBell C.
“
A primary rule of practice is meditation with no objects or anchors. Just concentrate on the breath.
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Toshimi A. Kayaki (Green Tea Living: A Japan-Inspired Guide to Eco-friendly Habits, Health, and Happiness)
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You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still alive and vivid in your mind – almost real – and the reality of your new circumstances has yet to fully sink in. You listen to the familiar melodies that had accompanied you on your journey, and allow the music to evoke landscapes and scenes in your mind. The songs caress your sub-consciousness and fill your being with an airy joy. You are both here and elsewhere. Or perhaps you are everywhere and nowhere.
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Agnes Chew (The Desire for Elsewhere)
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And what is true for human beings is true for every living thing: all organisms require alternating periods of growth and equilibrium. Any person or system exposed to ceaseless novelty and change risks falling into chaos; but one that is too rigid or static ceases to grow and eventually dies. This never-ending dance between change and stability is like the anchor and the waves. Adult relationships mirror these dynamics all too well. We seek a steady, reliable anchor in our partner. Yet at the same time we expect love to offer a transcendent experience that will allow us to soar beyond our ordinary lives. The challenge for modern couples lies in reconciling the need for what’s safe and predictable with the wish to pursue what’s exciting, mysterious, and awe-inspiring.
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Esther Perel (Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence)
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God’s grace is strong enough to hold me steady through every difficulty.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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The reason why human beings fail to create real connections with others, is due to the fact that they are not first real within themselves. If you want your connection with another to be real, then you must first make sure that you are real in yourself, thus giving the other person a genuine ground to anchor into. People colour themselves different shades that do not match their own, and then they are surprised why they fail to create lasting relationships with other people! You must be the shade that you are, because the shades that you paint on will all wash off eventually, anyway. Be the shade that you are, and attract the people that like the real hue of you.
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C. JoyBell C.
“
She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.
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Veronica Roth (Four: A Divergent Story Collection (Divergent, #0.1-0.4))
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Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities.
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Bryant McGill (Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life)
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If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is
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Van Cliburn
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When others cannot find something to hold onto … we can reach out and be their anchor in that moment.
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Aaron Woodall
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Hope is the anchor of life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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You can't go fishing while you're anchored in the desert.
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Jayce O'Neal
“
In my life, I have but one anchor and that anchor is my God. I think if you look closely enough, you can even see it in my eyes, you'll see a strong place, an anchor. That is God.
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C. JoyBell C.
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I have but one anchor in my life and that is my love.
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Debasish Mridha
“
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure." (Hebrews 6:19)
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Anonymous
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Don't sail through life, without an anchor, a captain and a compass
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Sonya Withrow
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In the midst of the storm, my only anchor is the Saviour.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.
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Victor Robert Lee (Performance Anomalies)
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Your call to power is to slow down and reflect within. Gather the peace within yourself before you go out and act among the world. The feel good feeling that lasts is only achieved when you yourself know peace. Nothing is more powerful. This is why you have the highs and lows, the mood swings, the transcendent ecstasy followed by the crash. It is because you have yet to develop a foundation of peace for yourself that acts as an unmovable anchor in your life. Establish this peace in your life and you will experience a whole new reality of the world that flows with you in every way possible, rather than against you.
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Alaric Hutchinson (Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life)
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Sometimes, God drives us to Prayer and Scripture not for answers to the struggles, but for anchors in the storms.
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Todd Stocker (Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose)
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Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor"
"A ship without an anchor can never be at rest
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Dean Koontz (From the Corner of His Eye)
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You can't swim free through life...if you're constantly tied to an anchor. Let go of whatever is holding you back. You'll live a better life by doing so!
www.bullyingben.com
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Timothy Pina (Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying)
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Saying sorry too much is an anchor on your upward mobility.
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Aimee Cohen (Woman Up!: Overcome the 7 Deadly Sins that Sabotage Your Success)
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You are going to take the high sea of the world; change not, on that account, patron or sails, anchor or wind. Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.
May the favorable wind of celestial inspirations ever fill your vessel's sails fuller and fuller and make you happily arrive at the port of a holy eternity.
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Francis de Sales
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Faith is your anchor and sustainer in the new season. Faith that the one who called us is faithful. Faith helps you see in the dark. And when you feel like you can't see, Faith steadies your heart to trust what you know. What is true.
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T.D. Jakes
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You’re with a girl. She’s brown-haired and side-swept. I imagine that she’s the kind of girl who can easily shop for jean shorts, and speaks kindly more often than not. She seems like the kind of girl who hates New York City because it wreaks havoc on her shoes (really she just thinks it’s a big and scary place), but once had the time of her life in Spain on a backpacking trip when she was 23. Her gaze is focused on the embracing couple as near strangers capable of judgement. She stands bolted next to you like you’re her anchor in the social storm.
You two seem finely matched… but what do I know? (Nothing at all.)
I accidentally saw a picture of you and it reminded me that I was dating a man rightfully shaking his fist at God, while trying to hold my hand with the other. I was reminded of how fiercely we tried to hold our relationship together, and how devastated and relieved we were in its destruction. There’s water under that bridge.
I accidentally saw a picture of you. No big deal. I wrote about it.
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Joy Wilson
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Hope doesn’t float. Hope is an anchor forged from the nails that pierced Him and the iron-will that held Him to the cross, made Him stay the course, and drove Him to live out His extreme devotion to His Father’s will. His back became the anvil on which God forged our redemption. Jesus is our only hope.
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Lori Stanley Roeleveld
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It is the process of deeply anchoring yourself to a worthy goal that enables you to have the means released along the way to become that super-racer, become that vehicle that transcends all limitations, that goes beyond the horizontal level, that ascends to higher and more powerful levels all the time.
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Maha Devi Li Ra La
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You can’t set sail without hoisting your anchor first
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Sandra Cooze (Journey to Your Self - How to Heal from Trauma: Written by Someone Who Did)
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Don't live on the comments of people but on the truths of God.
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Todd Stocker (Anchored: Finding Stability In A World Gone Adrift)
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Hope is immeasurable anchor.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (The Wings of Hope: Survivor)
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It was by Anandamayi Ma: “Be anchored in fearlessness. What is worldly life but fear!
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Carrie Jones (Endure (Need, #4))
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Less stuff = more freedom. Possessions are like anchors, tethering us to our houses (to store them), and our jobs (to pay for them).
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Francine Jay (Miss Minimalist: Inspiration to Downsize, Declutter, and Simplify)
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Your mustard seed is enough.
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Armesse Cheney (Stay Here: Staying in Christ, remaining anchored in His presence, and allowing His Word to come alive in our thoughts, hearts, and actions.)
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Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No words were exchanged beyond the brief lines uttered to this nameless stranger, whose inclinations remained unclear. The car sped along empty roads and traversed dingy alleyways. Music blared from its speakers. I did not remember exhaling throughout the entire journey.
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Agnes Chew (The Desire for Elsewhere)
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challenges arose, a capacity for personal resilience. My hope is that the trials and triumphs of my journey as a daughter, sister, wife, mother, litigator, and friend will stand as a testament for young women, people of color, and strivers everywhere, especially those who nourish outsized ambitions and believe with stubborn faith in the possibility of achieving them. I want to encourage these bold dreamers not to be turned aside by adversity, because life will always present challenges. We must allow them to teach and fortify us, and help us build confidence in our ability to find a way through. In the end, we must trust the path we choose to walk, anchored by a firm sense of our potential, inspired by the people with whom we surround ourselves, and bolstered by our willingness to keep on.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson (Lovely One: A Memoir)
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In the bitter waves of woe,
Beaten and tossed about
By the sullen winds that blow
From the desolate shores of doubt,
When the anchors that faith had cast
Are dragging in the gale,
I am quietly holding fast
To the things that cannot fail:
In the darkest night of the year,
When the stars have all gone out, That courage is better than fear, That faith is truer than doubt;
And fierce though the fiends may fight, And long though the angels hide,
I know that Truth and Right
Have the universe on their side;
And somewhere, beyond the stars,
Is a Love that is better than fate;
When the night unlocks her bars
I shall see Him, and I will wait
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Washington Gladden
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Not a ripple could be noticed on the surface of the green waters; the swans themselves, even, reposing with folded wings like ships at anchor, seemed inspirations of the warmth of the air, the freshness of the water, and the silence of the beautiful evening
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Alexandre Dumas (Ten Years Later)
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
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Joshua DuBois (The President's Devotional: The Daily Readings That Inspired President Obama)
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Immediate, glad obedience to God sets our course on the sea of happiness. Disobedience drops anchor in the sea of despair.Godly living means no regrets about yesterday, no embarrassments today, no schemes for tomorrow. Trust and let the One who holds both the past and future be your Guide for the present.
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Woodrow Kroll
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Exchanging Hats
Unfunny uncles who insist
in trying on a lady's hat,
--oh, even if the joke falls flat,
we share your slight transvestite twist
in spite of our embarrassment.
Costume and custom are complex.
The headgear of the other sex
inspires us to experiment.
Anandrous aunts, who, at the beach
with paper plates upon your laps,
keep putting on the yachtsmen's caps
with exhibitionistic screech,
the visors hanging o'er the ear
so that the golden anchors drag,
--the tides of fashion never lag.
Such caps may not be worn next year.
Or you who don the paper plate
itself, and put some grapes upon it,
or sport the Indian's feather bonnet,
--perversities may aggravate
the natural madness of the hatter.
And if the opera hats collapse
and crowns grow draughty, then, perhaps,
he thinks what might a miter matter?
Unfunny uncle, you who wore a
hat too big, or one too many,
tell us, can't you, are there any
stars inside your black fedora?
Aunt exemplary and slim,
with avernal eyes, we wonder
what slow changes they see under
their vast, shady, turned-down brim.
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Elizabeth Bishop
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Look deep inside yourself and find your inner angel. Your inner angel will show you how to drop the anchor of emotional burden and fly. Your inner angel knows where to find light to chase away the darkness. Your inner angels helps you balance when the world pushes and pulls. And, most important of all, your inner angel has a wingspan that is broad enough to lift the hearts of those in pain.
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Emily March (Lover's Leap (Eternity Springs, #4))
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This is how all love works. Like Israel's love for God, love does not need deep knowledge of the other to be evoked and sustained-- through, once inspired, it might seek such knowledge. Love is evoked not by beauty or moral goodness (in the sense of kindness) but by the mysterious promise of the loved one to anchor and sustain one's life, such that one can feel at home in the world. Love can never count on requital or justice- and it is perhaps most genuinely love if it doesn't.
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Simon May (Love: A History)
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The religious utopian hides his pride behind the mask of humility; he recognizes God alone; he does not recognize ministers or sacraments since he puts himself in place of both. He ministers his own religious needs and he consecrates his inner self as a place of worship more worthy of receiving God than the churches. He substitutes his own sentiments and emotions for doctrine, because doctrines are man-made speculations unable to comprehend God's essence. He considers the sacramental, ceremonial and generally institutional aspects of religion as rigid and expendable molds which are adequate for the unthinking who need strong sensations and impressions to sustain their faith. He, on the other hand, puts his trust in his own individual inspiration, strengthens his faith through direct and permanent contact with the divine and so rises as a pure spirit to the level of a "truer" religion.
The secular utopian also displays excessive pride. He believes that societies of the past were based on error since they yielded to the political principle of organization and hierarchy. The goal of the utopian is to create a society in its pristine purity, as it were, unsullied by laws and magistrates, functioning through its members' natural good will and cooperativeness. Laws, institutions, symbols, flags, armies, disciplines, patriotic encouragement and the like will all be abolished because, for pure social beings, their inner motivation of social living - togetherness - is quite sufficient and because they would serve to anchor the citizens, bodily and emotionally, in the soil and reality of the State just as pomp and ceremony, rules and institutions anchor the faithful in religion.
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Thomas Steven Molnar (Utopia, The Perennial Heresy)
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In the end, we must trust the path we choose to walk, anchored by a firm sense of our potential, inspired by the people with whom we surround ourselves, and bolstered by our willingness to keep on. As I often tell the young people I talk to, including my own college-age daughters, ordinary humans can do extraordinary things. So go ahead, and dream as enormously and as courageously as you can. If you are diligent and well-prepared, relentlessly optimistic, and resolute in purpose, you will be capable of creating a brilliant future for yourself. And, as my own life has shown, no matter where we began our journey, or the missteps we will surely make along the way, we must press forward, girded by our blessings and strengthened by our hardships, whether we are laboring quietly outside the spotlight, or in full view on a public stage, we are, each of us, called to write our story in the chronicle of history, too.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson (Lovely One: A Memoir)
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Flower Beds by Maisie Aletha Smikle
Flower beds in a row
Like tic toc toe
Spread the mulch
Pluck the weeds and mow
Water the flower beds
And flowers will bud
Colorful blooms
All season long
Welcome the sunshine
From heaven’s furnace
Anchored far up in the sky
Gentle rays beam from up above
A round ball of fire way up in the sky
Always suspended in the anchored sky
Shines its radiant beams from way up high
Warming the sprouting flower beds
Sunlight Moonlight Starlight
Warm gentle and bright
Make the flower beds bright
Glowing softly in the night
Thanks for the moon
Thanks for the stars
Thanks for the sun
Thanks for the soft radiant beams of light
That make the flower beds beautiful and bright
In colorful shades of red
Yellow orange black pink
Purple green and white
In the blooming flower bed
Sat a rabbit called Skip
Watching the horizon as the circle of fire slowly dip
Diving slowly into the ocean deep
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Maisie Aletha Smikle
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Love’s space
In the distance, not too far but far enough,
I had once seen her walking with someone,
And that single, casual visual encounter was enough,
To think of her always and that mysterious someone,
They walked for a while and then sat under a tree,
There they spoke of past while they were still discovering the present,
And I wondered of my own future under the tree,
Long after they had left, when I was dealing with my own present,
I had somehow anchored my likings on her,
My thoughts always felt her presence,
She was there under the tree and I was with her,
Although in reality she was exploring her own present in that someone’s presence,
Yet I loved to return to the tree and be there for hours,
Thinking of her and the future that could be,
Her and mine, just ours, and then it would create for us unending hours,
I so deeply wished if it could be, only if it could be,
The tree is there, the stream too,
I am always there between the stream and the tree,
They both know it too,
But what I wish for the girl and myself, the stream wishes for the tree,
So whenever I am under the tree thinking of her,
The stream flows by looking at the motionless and stationary tree,
And then both remind me of her,
Both the stream and the tree,
Now it is winter and the stream has frozen,
Just like the tree, motionless and anchored in eternity of nowhere,
And in me, just like the stream, her thoughts and feelings are frozen,
Because she now is the everywhere and everything in my emotional state called nowhere,
Like the stream that to express her feelings of love towards the never moving tree,
Froze itself completely and turned still,
To feel the feelings of her darling and ever still tree,
That even in her frozen state she loves still, in ways silent and still,
So I share the stream’s irony or maybe I share the trees stillness,
Its silence, where it quietly discloses that it never moves anywhere because it loves the stream,
That always flows through its roots of love, and when the tree feels this romantic stillness,
It decides to lie anchored on the banks of the stream, to enjoy his love’s accessible stream,
And I feel the same for her whenever I am under the tree,
Or with the stream that flows beside it,
For she still exists there, frozen for my sake by the always still tree,
And her reflection too is frozen in the running water of the stream, and I love feeling the wonder of it,
All of it, the stream, the tree, she; and her frozen reflection in the stream’s water,
And whenever I am here, the tree bends a bit, the stream slows her pace,
And I see her beautiful face in the flowing water, the stream’s clear water,
And then I too slow down my life’s pace, in this love’s own space, where time always loses its pace!
”
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Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
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The first step astray is a want of adequate faith in the divine inspiration of the sacred Scriptures. All the while a man bows to the authority of God's Word, he will not entertain any sentiment contrary to its teaching. "To the law and to the testimony," is his appeal concerning every doctrine. He esteems that holy Book, concerning all things, to be right, and therefore he hates every false way. But let a man question, or entertain low views of the inspiration and authority of the Bible, and he is without chart to guide him, and without anchor to hold him.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (The Downgrade Controversy (C. H. Spurgeon Collection Book 12))
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Have a firmer grasp or grip on your dream. Then you can anchor yourself in that, and you won't be swayed on way or another.
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”
Adrienne Posey
“
Everywhere and nowhere
A boat in the mist covered river,
Moved slowly, as if traveling through the smoke of time,
The banks stretched their arms forever,
While the river flowed quietly between them creating endless waves of time,
As the point from where the boat started seemed farther,
The boat to it too appeared obscure and now almost unseen,
As the smoke of time hid both of them from each other,
I witnessed what I had never before seen
The waves that touched the body of the boat,
Rushed to the point where it had started from,
To play to it her loving note,
And it could easily tell from which boat it had originated from,
The boatman who sometimes dipped his tired hands into the water,
Felt the kiss of the waves trying to cover his boat,
And he smiled because he knew what each wave was after,
These kiss soaked waves that felt the body of his smoothly sailing boat,
And at times he looked at the point from where he had started,
His eyes would pierce through veil of invisibility cast by the mist,
And the starting point that was now the waiting point, from which the boat had departed,
Would longingly return the look through the dense cover of the mist,
And the boat would sail farther away with every wave,
The mist followed it everywhere,
And the point from where the boat started, now hoped, and did crave,
To see the boat once again, because it disliked the feeling when in the long river it was sailing somewhere,
Because the point where the boat anchored everyday,
Knew that there are places in the river called nowhere,
And when the boat left the anchored spot, it waited for her every day,
Until it was sure that now the boat was safely anchored here, and not just anywhere or nowhere!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
What was the inspiration for all this? Snow White's forest?"
"Close, kind of," I replied. "This one's actually FernGully."
"You're kidding," he said.
"Nope. She wanted her very own enchanted rain forest, and it looks like that's exactly what she got," I said.
"She sure did," he replied. "I can't believe we're in Tennessee."
The clear-top tent was anchored by fourteen-foot faux weeping willow trees. Candles in glass orbs hung from every branch. The elevated dance floor floated in the center of the space and could be described only as an enormous Lucite shadow box filled with thousands of faux flowers in a rainbow of colors. The bars were covered in green moss and adorned with hundreds of colorful butterflies. The clear ceiling was almost entirely covered in twinkling fairy lights that would look just like a sky full of stars once the sun set.
But the real showstopper was the centerpiece on every dining table. Atop every amethyst silk tablecloth was an antique birdcage that housed two real-life lovebirds. The rosy-faced little birds were hopping around and singing, and the space looked, sounded, and felt exactly like an enchanted forest from the movie. I wasn't precisely sure how authentic they were to the rain forest setting, but their chirping certainly added to the wild vibe.
”
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Mary Hollis Huddleston (Piece of Cake: A Novel)
“
I open my eyes and gaze softly at the room in front of me. Then I close them again. Once I’m anchored in bliss, it doesn’t matter whether my eyes are open or closed. I can maintain this expansive state of awareness either way. My intention is to take this awareness into my workday after meditation. I don’t want to think or act from anywhere else. After a while, I look down again at my body sitting in the chair. I realize I’ve been drifting, one with the light, basking in bliss, for a long time. My heart fills with joy and my eyes fill with tears, as I’m overwhelmed with gratitude. For my life, exactly the way it is. For every detail of what is. For everything that will happen in the future, no matter what it might be. I give thanks for all of it. I connect with everyone who’s meditating at this same time anywhere in the world. I open my eyes and look at the sunlight outside the room I’m meditating in. I’m aware of both time and space again. The forgotten cup of coffee in my hands is completely cold. Tears of gratitude flow down my cheeks. I look at my cup. The words printed on it read: Find Joy in the Journey. After we moved into the new house that replaced the one destroyed by fire, I went on a hunt for mugs printed with inspirational words; those bequeathed by the fire victims’ shelter with captions like Construction Equipment Dealer’s Association and My Dang Dog Also Drinks from My Cup didn’t echo the energy of the meditative state. I feel grateful for everything. My hands, with which I hold the coffee cup. My feet, with which I can walk. My breath, bringing life to my cells. My connection to the universe. The wonderful people in my life. I close my eyes and I am immediately in the light once again. I open them and the light remains. In a trance, I stand up and get a fresh cup of coffee. My wife has woken up and she comes into the room to get her morning cup of coffee. We embrace wordlessly. I bury my face in her hair and am enraptured by its scent. We gaze deeply into each other’s eyes and say nothing as she sits down to meditate too. When I close my eyes again, I’m back in Bliss Brain.
”
”
Dawson Church (Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy)
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LOCAL SELF AS HOST FOR NONLOCAL SELF When you drop back into your daily life after meditation, you’re changed. You’ve communed with nonlocal mind for an hour, experiencing the highest possible cadence of who you are. That High Self version of you rearranges neurons in your head to create a physical structure to anchor it. You now have a brain that accommodates both the local self and the nonlocal self. My experience has been that the longer you spend in Bliss Brain, whether in or out of meditation, the greater the volume of neural tissue available to anchor that transcendent self in physical experience. Once a critical mass of neurons has wired together, a tipping point occurs. You begin to flash spontaneously into Bliss Brain throughout your day. When you’re idle for a while, like being stuck in traffic or standing in line at the grocery store, the most natural activity seems to be to go into Bliss Brain for a few moments. This reminds you, in the middle of everyday life, that the nonlocal component of your Self exists. It also brings all the enhanced creativity, productivity, and problem-solving ability of Bliss Brain to bear on your daily tasks. You become a happy, creative, and effective person. These enhanced capabilities render you much more able to cope with the challenges of life. They don’t confer exceptional luck. When everyone’s house burns down, yours does too. When the economy nosedives, it takes you with it. But because you possess resilience, and a daily experience of your nonlocal self, you take it in stride. Even when external things vanish, you still have the neural network that Bliss Brain created. No one can take that away from you. DEEPENING PRACTICES Here are practices you can do this week to integrate the information in this chapter into your life: Posttraumatic Growth Exercise 1: In your journal, write down the names of the most resilient people you’ve known personally. They can be alive or dead. They’re people who’ve gone through tragedy and come out intact. Make an appointment to spend time with at least two of the living ones in the coming month. Listen to their stories and allow inspiration to fill you. Neural Reconsolidation Exercise: This week, after a particularly deep meditation, savor the experience. Set a timer and lie down for 15 to 30 minutes. Visualize your synapses wiring together as you deliberately fire them by remembering the deliciousness of the meditation. Choices Exercise: Make 10 photocopies of illustration 7.4, the two doors. Next, analyze in what areas of your environment you often make negative choices. Maybe it’s in online meetings with an annoying colleague at work. Maybe it’s the food choices you make when you walk to the fridge. Maybe it’s the movies you watch on your TV. Tape a copy of the two doors illustration to those objects, such as the monitor, fridge, or TV. This will help you remember, when you’re under stress, that you have a choice.
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Dawson Church (Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy)
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Father
by Maisie Aletha Smikle
In the image of God
You were created
Bestowed with God's love
You always rise above
To overcome whatever may
Come your way
Be it small as a pin
Or big as an anchor
With your loving arms
You comforted me
And consoled me
Like a father should
You guided me
You protected me
You sheltered me
You fed me
You clothed me
You shielded me
With your tower of strength
Bullies stayed at arms length
I run to you for help
You said
Come my loving child
And rest for a while
My worries you take
And place in your pockets
You promise to be the rock
I could always lean on
Promises you kept
Until your very last breath
Rest sweet Papa rest
You have done your utmost best
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Maisie Aletha Smikle
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With good advice from a friend of Frank Giannino’s, I decided to start a day early on July 31, 2018 at Anchor Point on the Kenai peninsula. Anchor Point is the furthest west you can travel on continuous US highways. If I was able to make it to Key West, I could say I did the furthest west to furthest south road trip you can do in America on foot.
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Brian R. Stark (Across America on Foot: 27 Stories of Adventure, Endurance, and Inspiration)
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Memories provide an anchoring mechanism in defining what we must emphasize in the present to achieve the future we strive to obtain.
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Jay D'Cee
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Beyond thorns are blooming meadows, beyond grief are smiles. Numb is the world, but why must you be? Anchor feet on the shore of melodies, in dance, all stress shall release.
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Shah Asad Rizvi (The Book of Dance)
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BROADCASTING RESONANCE Anchored in nonlocal consciousness, your local life begins to change. As you resonate with the cycles of nature, as your heart’s coherence conditions the energy space around you, as you vibrate to the signal of love and joy in your consciousness, you attract people and conditions that match your states and traits. Without effort, as your magnificent new signal broadcasts out around you, resonating with the music of the universe, you’ll come into synchrony with people and events that bless and delight you. You’ll discover that you’re not alone. As you tune to the great symphony of life each day, you’ll find that you’re tuned to millions of other people who are likewise attuned. With no effort at all, you’ll discover wonderful new friends and companions wherever you travel. As the light shines from your eyes, it meets the light in the eyes of others. When you’re awake, you naturally enjoy others who are awake. 9.3. Coming into synchrony. LOVING THE SLEEPER Not everyone is awake, and that’s fine. Sometimes your friends and family members are tossing in their sleep, suffering unnecessarily. Their plight touches you. You feel their misery. You would love to see them wake up, and shed those beliefs, thoughts, and habits that drag them down. You can’t force them to do so, no matter how much you love them. Everyone makes their own choice. What you can do for people who are suffering is shine brightly yourself. If they’re ready, they’ll wake up. If they don’t, trust the universe. We each wake up when the time is right. Their time might come later; it’s not up to you. You can share this book and other resources with them. You can share your story as I have shared mine, and perhaps these examples will inspire them. If and when each of us wakes up is our choice. UNLOCKING YOUR POTENTIAL As you live in synchrony with the universe, enjoying the community of other Bliss Brainers, you find new possibilities opening up. You start to unlock potential that’s been trapped inside the suffering, selfing self. Increasingly, you’re not just in Bliss Brain during meditation. You’re in the Awakened Mind state with your eyes open, going about your day. All kinds of possibilities that were previously unavailable to you now become available.
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Dawson Church (Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy)
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The desert wind had stirred up evil odors from the fringe plantings which anchored the dunes at the cliff base. Fremen superstition gripped her: evil odors, evil times. She faced into the wind, saw a worm appear outside the plantings. It arose like the prow of a demon ship out of the dunes, threshed sand, smelled the water deadly to its kind, and fled beneath a long, burrowing mound.
She hated the water then, inspired by the worm's fear. Water, once the spirit-soul of Arrakis, had become a poison. Water brought pestilence. Only the desert was clean.
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Frank Herbert (Dune Messiah (Dune #2))
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The company you keep can either fuel your flight or anchor your dreams. Choose to fly high.
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Felecia Etienne
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In the ebb and flow of life’s stormy waves, when fortune and dreams may waver, do not cling to the world’s ephemeral goods. Instead, let hope be the firm anchor that holds your spirit together in the middle of a storm, carrying you through the darkest nights to the dawn of a new day.
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Shree Shambav (Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I)
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Women do not leave situations like this: we push up our sleeves, lean in closer, and say, "What do you need? Tell me what you need and by God I will do it." I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard that when elephants are attacked they often run, not away, but toward each other. Perhaps it is because they are a matriarchal society.
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Elizabeth Berg (Talk Before Sleep)
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With patience as our anchor and determination as our compass, we navigate the turbulent seas of life, steadfast in our pursuit of dreams.
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Steven Cuoco (Guided Transformation: Poems, Quotes & Inspiration)
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Without company values or leadership principles explicitly crafted and executed as clear accountability anchors, they remain to be seen as only ineffective invitations instead of Revisited expectations.
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Elaina Noell (Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace: Unlocking the Brain's Secrets to Employee Engagement, Accountability, and Results)
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A fertile soil, quality seeds, photosynthesis and deep roots make a tree endure. A trusting environment, inspired employees, a learning mentality and anchoring effective behaviours make a High Performing Organisation successful.
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Daniel Hartweg (High Performing Organisation: An inspiring and practical handbook for leaders and employees on fostering a culture of engagement, effectiveness and empathy)
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Hope is the beacon in the dark night. Its light shines through the storm of your soul, and when you allow God to anchor your hope, you will realize He’s greater than any situation you will ever encounter.
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DarkNightBeacon
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Broken boat!
The small boat was anchored, where the lake ended,
It stood there over the water and nothing at all pretended,
The silently lapping water showed no hurry,
Just like the still boat that today had no reason to worry,
The boat, the water, everything appeared to be at ease,
They had no reason to rush, and nobody to please,
Just themselves and their anchored state,
That steadfastly cast them into this feeling of never being tired to wait,
Wait for the sunrise, wait for the moon rise, wait for the morning,
Wait for the boatman, wait for a new wave, wait for the birds to sing,
It seemed the boat and the lake could wait forever and for everything,
And just like the boat I too waited for someone, that feeling beautiful, that special something,
The lake spreads far and wide,
And the boat stands anchored between this divide,
To wait or to drift at the wind’s will,
The prospect is attractive but the boat has a promise to fulfill,
Towards the boatman, towards the anchor, towards the lake too,
And towards something or maybe someone, nobody knows who,
Maybe it is her secret affair,
With the shore, with the security it offers her,
While she is romancing the shore and it erotically kisses her hull,
And an onlooker like me feels she wants to break free from this life so dull,
But maybe she does not regard the weight of the anchor to be a boundation,
For it holds her close to the erotic shore and it's wet and muddy sensation,
As time passes by, the boat begins to rot,
The kiss of the shore that enticed her and felt so hot,
Was actually fooling her to feel what was not real,
By the time the boat realised the kiss of the shore was unreal,
The hull of the boat had perforated and crumbled,
And as it lay there in this state of uselessness and now humbled,
The shore no longer kissed it,
Because now a new boat stood anchored there, and the shore was erotically kissing it,
The boat has decomposed, and its wood drifts freely in the lake now,
And it wanders endlessly to seek that real feeling of love,
But in pieces, one here, one there, one somewhere unknown,
In pieces trying to find love that it never had actually felt or known,
So, whenever I see a broken piece of a boat,
I think of you my love, and then with these pieces I and my feelings float,
Where? Only every broken piece of the boat can tell,
But unlike the boat, I feel our love is real and it is for nobody except us to judge and tell!
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Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
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I was your anchor when you were lost, but you sailed away without looking back.
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Marion Bekoe
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In the storm of struggle, find your anchor; it is the relentless pursuit of passion that will guide you safely to shore.
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Jerome McGinn
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Youth must triumph... now. Afterwards, it will be life.
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José García Villa (The Anchored Angel: Selected Writings by Jose Garcia Villa)
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Home is the anchor that keeps you afloat.
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Kris ODonnell
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Like the rudder or anchor on a ship, your habits can guide you in the direction of your dreams or hold you back and keep you from achieving them.
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Mensah Oteh (The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day)
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When life’s great storms come, the weak sink, the cowardly jump ship, the strong drop an anchor, the mighty adjust their sails, and the great sail on to their destiny.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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one plus one is two; so the cord of two is better than one.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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As long as you have at least one thing anchoring you, you can't get too lost.
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Meghan March
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So I just open up my arms and Vera leans against me, and Gabe steps closer, putting one hand on her hair and petting it absently. None of us say anything. The city pulses on around us, and I’m not sure which one of us is anchoring the others, but I’ve never felt less adrift.
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Emma Mills (This Adventure Ends)
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You either live to become an anchor of inspiration for those around you, or you live to become an anchor for a lesson for them. Whatever you become, it is entirely up to you to decide.
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Jellis Vaes
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Blame anchors us into the past; a place we cannot change. Acceptance frees us to the future.
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Bryant McGill (Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life)
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Part of facing the unknown requires dropping an anchor of faith into the depths of God’s sovereignty.
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James Stuart Bell (A Cup of Comfort Women of the Bible Devotional: Daily Reflections Inspired by Scripture's Most Beloved Heroines)
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The fascinating and awesome handiwork of God will anchor your power of appreciation on the shores of infinity.
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Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh
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. Inspiration originally meant “being in spirit”, indicating that when we are inspired we are connected to a higher domain of pure awareness and pure consciousness. True inspiration can only flow through us when we are anchored in the present moment.
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Christopher Dines (Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life)
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So I asked Dr Ceric if he thought there was a conflict between European values and Islam. ‘Not at all,’ he said. ‘Respect for other religions lies at the heart of Islam. And the principle of democracy is even anchored in Islam.’ When I looked surprised he explained: ‘Go right back to the origins of Islam.
After Muhammad died, how did his followers seek his successor? They consulted with each other and chose his closest friend Abu Bakr in a democratic vote. Democracy is absolutely Islamic.
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Kristiane Backer (From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life)
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Anchor your life with love and light.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Never give up.
May hope be your anchor.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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In the midst of the storm, our anchor is hope.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)