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Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people Picture Quote #1

Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn’t quite have the energy to be there Picture Quote #1

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else’s story, the delicious ache of a last page Picture Quote #1

The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams and you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you’ve barely met the curiosity is intoxicating Picture Quote #1

It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don’t have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in Picture Quote #1

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth Picture Quote #1

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Like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we’re playing games and making the rules up as we go we’re matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we’re hidden holding forbidden lights we’re children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we’re finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps Picture Quote #1

Maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away Picture Quote #1

I’m writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often Picture Quote #1

Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore Picture Quote #1

Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don’t reject them, let them come through when they’re ready, don’t think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated Picture Quote #1

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them Picture Quote #1

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Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them Picture Quote #1

Only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend Picture Quote #1

We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else’s Picture Quote #1

Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash Picture Quote #1

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me Picture Quote #1

Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens Picture Quote #1

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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing Picture Quote #1

Since there is no place large enough to contain so much happiness, you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you into everything you touch. You are not responsible. You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit for the moon, but continues to hold it, and share it, and in that way, be known Picture Quote #1

For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park Picture Quote #1

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What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn’t quite have the energy to be there (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else’s story, the delicious ache of a last page (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams and you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you’ve barely met the curiosity is intoxicating (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don’t have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we’re playing games and making the rules up as we go we’re matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we’re hidden holding forbidden lights we’re children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we’re finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) I’m writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don’t reject them, let them come through when they’re ready, don’t think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else’s (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) Since there is no place large enough to contain so much happiness, you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you into everything you touch. You are not responsible. You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit for the moon, but continues to hold it, and share it, and in that way, be known (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes) For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park (Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes)

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