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As I Wind Down The Pines

As I wind down the pines
it's the lines on your face
playing on your face.

Without thinking so much
as abandoning thought
I went through open country
over water meadow streams
lakes and wires and roosts in reeds
to a nest in the hole of
this dead
tree.

To play without stopping or pause
not for silence not for applause
not without thinking
and thinking's abandoning thought.

As I wind down the pines
it's the lines on your face

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song performed by The Tragically Hip from Music @ Work
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Love Yourself

Love starts with you and has no end.
It begins when you love your life’s best friend.
Look in the mirror and who do you see?
Hopefully, you’ll smile and wink proudly.
You and your ego will be so much nearer
When you love that smiling face in the mirror.
If you can’t say “I love myself humbly,”
Then you can’t love others genuinely.
Self love isn’t selfish nor is it vain.
Self love is the Foundation which will sustain
Our selfless feelings for our fellow man
To help through our life as best we can.
What do clouds feel if you haven't flown?
You can’t reflect love if you can’t feel your own.
You can’t enjoy that book on the library shelf,
If you’ve never learned to read yourself.
Nor can you appreciate a foreign to tongue
Without learning words from it’s very first rung.
Hearing but not knowing a word. So it is with love.
Avoid abandoning it with an emotional shove.

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poem by Gregory Huyette
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When I think of you,
fireflies in the marsh rise
like the soul’s jewels,
lost to eternal longing,
abandoning my body.

poem by Izumi Shikibu
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Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

quote by James Q. Wilson
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I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

quote by Gustave Courbet
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

quote by Dan Quayle
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What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

quote by Mikhail Gorbachev
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It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

quote by Arthur Henderson
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None wants heaven

There are ten steps to reach Heaven.
The last one is death. With that threat,
Everyone who were taught had left,
Abandoning the going to Heaven.
16.03.2000, Palakkad

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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