Ada Limon Quotes

#1. No one wants to be remembered for their death, or rather, I don't. So why do I remember hers and remember hers? I

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#2. Accept diversity and don't take any crap.

Guy Kawasaki

#3. The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. There are so many people who've come before us,
arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools, buffalo.
Look out at the meadow, you can almost see them,
generations dissolved in the bluegrass and hay.
I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.

Ada Limon

#5. A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

Emil Nolde

#6. I wanted to be a hummingbird.
It made sense to long for rapid wings and the ability to hover always
to be Huitzilopochtli taming my snakes.
Sometimes though, the thought exhausts me and
I want to be a slow horse, a tennis shoe.

Ada Limon

#7. Desire is a tricky thing, the boiling of the body's wants,

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#8. I want to give you something, or I want to take something from you. But I want to feel the exchange, the warm hand on the shoulder, the song coming out and the ear holding onto it.

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#9. I judged them against the country I knew, which had acquired the land through murder and tamed it under slavery,

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#10. Maybe my limbs are made
mostly for decoration,
like the way I feel about
persimmons.

Ada Limon

#11. The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

Dalai Lama

#12. All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles
and ghosts of men, and spirits
behind those birds of flame.
I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes,
I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through.

Ada Limon

#13. The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. Here is my sacrifice: my hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm.

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#15. Here it is: the new way of living with the world inside of us so we cannot lose it, and we cannot be lost. You and me are us and then, and it and sky.

Ada Limon

#16. Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.

Moby

#17. But what I forgot was that it was our plan, not hers, not the one doing the dying, this was a plan for those who still had a next. See, our job was simple: keep on living. Her job was harder, the hardest.

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#18. My mother's psychic says, everyone essentially wants
the same thing as everyone else, a sense of belonging, a coming home.

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#19. ...this life is a fist
of fast wishes caught by nothing
but the fishhook of tomorrow's tug.

Ada Limon

#20. I swear, I'll try harder not to miss as much: the tree, or how your fingers under still sleep-stunned sheets coaxed all my colors back.

Ada Limon

#21. I am not obsessing.
I am just sitting here
perforating this post-it
with a push-pin.

Ada Limon

#22. Not so much living, but a hovering without sense.

Ada Limon

#23. 7 hour sleep diet worked great. Will power held beautifully.

Steve Martin

#24. If we could light up the room with pain,
we'd be such a glorious fire.

Ada Limon

#25. Think crucial hanging.
Think crayon orange.
There is one low, leaning
heart-shaped globe left
and dearest, can you
tell, I am trying
to love you less.

Ada Limon

#26. There remains the mystery of how the pupil devours so much bastard beauty. Abandoned property.

This land and I are rewilding.

Ada Limon

#27. Don't think about Laika in orbit. Don't think about cringe and catastrophe.

Ada Limon

#28. Religious communities have historically been designed to counteract the forces of alienation. That's why so many successful social movements have relied upon the strength of spiritual communities and a large base of their organizing has been through them.

Tim DeChristopher

#29. People have done this before, but not us.

Ada Limon

#30. My first introduction to fashion probably came through television: I was obsessed with Elsa Klensch, who used to cover fashion for CNN.

Erdem Moralioglu

#31. I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong.

Ada Limon

#32. What I didn't like was how people talked to me
now that I was no longer single; they were nicer.
Men who never looked at me would start up a conversation,
like I was suddenly some safer form of fire.

Ada Limon