April Inspiration [Mods' Contribution]: iconmusing

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April Inspiration [Mods' Contribution]

Apr 01, 2013 18:52

Here's our contribution this month - the theme is That's What the Water Gave Me: water imagery, Ophelia (Hamlet), orange/blue contrast, sad spring imagery, life contrasted with death, haunting, lost.

Trigger warning: drowning

WORDS
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
― Norman Maclean

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
― Margaret Atwood

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