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High, high
What a feeling to fly
Over mountains and forests and seas
And to go anywhere that I please
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Where forest stream went through the wood
And silent all the stems there stood
Of tall trees, moveless, hanging dark
With mottled shadows on their bark
As faint as deepest sleeper's breath
An echo came as cold as death
Long are the paths, of shadow made
Where no foot's print is ever laid
No moon is there, no voice, no sound
Of beating heart; a sigh profound
Once in each age as each age dies
Alone is heard. Far, far it lies
The Land of Waiting where the Dead sit,
In their thought's shadow, by no moon lit
Upon the plain, there rushed forth and high
Shadows at the end of night and mirrored in the sky
Far far away beyond might of day
And there lay the land of the dead of mortal cold decay
"That which one has set oneself to do, one should not relinquish on the grounds of absence of mind or distraction.” - Leo Tolstoy
"Life is like a piano, said my teacher as he lit up his cigarette. The white keys are the g ood times, the black keyes are the bad times and as the song goes on you realise that the black keys make music too."
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
"There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived." -Anomander Rake
‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo.‘
So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’ ―J.R.R.Tolkien
"If you want to win you must not lose" – Number One
"Classification of fantasy and reality is itself a fantasy that humans created...Life begins when you make a disctinction between yourself and others. From that moment on, the world becomes a stage for the story in which you are the main character. All humans live in a fantasy in which they are the main character. But the world doesn't recognize you as the main character at all. What nonsense. Everyone lives their entire life tormented by this confusion. There's only one way out of this hell. To place yourself in a postion that is neither the main character nor a supporting role. In other words, the Author." Some guy
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific verity. On the contrary. The keener and the clearer is the reason, the better fantasy will it make. If men were ever in a state in which they did not want to know or could not perceive truth (facts or evidence), then Fantasy would languish until they were cured. If they ever get into that state (it would not seem at all impossible), Fantasy will perish, and become Morbid Delusion." ― J.R.R. Tolkien
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” ― Lewis Carroll
"Let me tell you something important in the end: a ship needs a port. A port that will wait for the ship until it arrives,and accept the ship when it arrives." ― Gigalt Gangaragash
“No wind favors he who has no destined port.” ― Michelde Montaigne
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K.
"Death smiles at us all. All a man can do it to smile back." ― Maximus
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” ― Mark Twain
"We possess a pair of eyes to help us to observe as well as to discover, yet most of us simply do not see in the true sense of the word. However, when it comes to observing faults in others, most of us are are quick to react with condemnation. But what about looking inwardly for a change? To personally examine who we really are and what we are, our merits as well as our faults — in short, to see oneself as [one] is for once and to take responsibility [for] oneself." - Bruce Lee
"The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born, when we die — although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born." ― Erich Fromm
"The psychological results of alienation are [that] man regresses to a receptive and marketing orientation and ceases to be productive; that he loses his sense of self, becomes dependent on approval, hence tends to conform and yet to feel insecure; he is dissatisfied, bored, and anxious, and spends most of his energy in the attempt to compensate for or just to cover up this anxiety. His intelligence is excellent, his reason deteriorates and in view of his technical powers he is seriously endangering the existence of civilization, and even of the human race.
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Reason deteriorates while their intelligence rises, thus creating the dangerous situation of equipping man with the greatest material power without the wisdom to use it. This alienation and automatization leads to an ever-increasing insanity. Life has no meaning, there is no joy, no faith, no reality." ― Erich Fromm
"There are all sorts of good-byes. Some good-byes are sad,and some good-byes are bellsings in disguise that take a load off of one's mind.
It often happens that someone who bid farwell unexpectedly returns, all embarrassed. And then there are times when someone makes it seem
like only a temporary parting, only to not return for a long time. And then there are good-byes that last forever.
True good-byes that we make only once in a lifetime." ― Yasaburou Shimogamo
"You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs" - ?
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." ― Zig Ziglar
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"Remember that the anchor of your being lies in human affection and human responsibility, but remember also to keep swimming up into the air of envisaged possibilities." ― Seamus Heaney
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor Frankl
“It’s part of the nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality,” Ray Bradbury
"It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling...” ― Aldous Huxley
"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Neil
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