Scrapbook 'The thing with feathers'

Scrapbook: "The thing with feathers"

by Christopher Adams

O to have my life henceforth a poem of new joys!
To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on,
To be a sailor of the world, bound for all ports,
A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
A swift and swelling ship, full of rich words—full of joys.

-Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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The winning isn't as important as the running after the ball.

-Steve Wozniak, interview, cited in Steven Levy, Hackers

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May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.

-Teresa of Avila

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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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Either we have hope within us or we don't. It is a dimension of the soul ... Hope in this deep and powerful sense is the ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed ... It is this hope, above all, that gives us the strength to live and continually to try new things, even in conditions that seem as hopeless as ours do here and now.

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Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are Anger and Courage: anger at the way things are, and courage to work to change them.

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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words--
And never stops at all.

-Emily Dickinson

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Four kinds of persons: zeal without knowledge; knowledge without zeal; neither knowledge nor zeal; both zeal and knowledge.

-Pascal, Pensées

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

-Henry David Thoreau

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