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“There are people who have Sun inside them; Their presence brightens,it’s not about beautiful smiles.They have an internal being that sheds light and feels like Sun. It’s a calm energy.Inner peace…most importantly;it’s not wanting anything back in return. It’s Sun.” Serdar Özkan

HAPPY FRIENDSHP FRIDAY When I am with you, dear friend, there is a warm steady glow in my heart. It dims when we are apart, but doesn't go out, patiently waiting for a reunion with its source.

after the quake adding I love you to a letter -M.D. Welch

How beautiful The beloved. Whether garbed In mortal tatters, Or in her dress Of everlastingness— Moon broken On the water, Or moon Still whole In the night sky. -Gregory Orr

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” ― Mark Twain

I love this! ❤️ "I am an Ultra Orthodox Jewish man, now I know what you're thinking and try to suspend judgment if you can..." From Rav Mo on Instagram:

This autumn I'll be looking at the moon With no child on my knee. -Uejima Onitsura

"We accept the love we think we deserve." -Stephen Cbosky

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.” – Henry David Thoreau

The cats and I had a long week and are off to read in bed.

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.” ― Mark Twain

Tang of salt in the walls And boards- Not from harbor Or shore, But the boundless sea Of grief, That ocean inside us. -Gregory Orr

We wonder the roof of hell, choosing blossoms. -Kobayashi Issa

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." -Plato

If you tell me you care about the well being of Palestinian civilians, but you have nothing to say about Hamas's conduct that put civilians in that position *and keeps them there* then you don't actually care about civilians.

I keep a child buried in my heart deep beneath lots of pride and hard scales of conceit. But someday the child will shatter the armor and burst out in a torrent of tears. -Hermann Hesse

"Criticism is like rain. It should be gentle enough to nourish a person's growth without destroying the roots." -Rabbi Bernath