Sunday Citar

by Hopeful Spirit on Sunday, July 12, 2009

Today I am par­tic­i­pat­ing in Sun­day Citar for the first time. It is a weekly meme hosted by Tabitha in which par­tic­i­pants share a favorite quote.

Until recently, my tag line here was a quote from Dag Ham­mer­skjöld, who served as the U.N. Secretary-General from 1953 until his tragic death in 1961. Pres­i­dent John F. Kennedy called him “the great­est states­man of our cen­tury” and he remains the only per­son to have received a Nobel Peace Prize posthu­mously. After his death, his diary was pub­lished. Therein, he described him­self as a Chris­t­ian mys­tic who viewed his diplo­matic endeav­ors as an “inner jour­ney.” Ham­mer­skjöld said:

Never look down to test the ground before tak­ing your next step;
only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far hori­zon will find the right road.

To see the list of other par­tic­i­pants and read the quotes they are shar­ing today, visit Fresh Mommy.


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1 Shaye Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 3:22 pm

Wel­come to Sun­day Citar. And wow, what a pro­found quote. The photo is gor­geous, too!

Thank you,

~Shaye
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2 septembermom Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 3:27 pm

The quote is so thought pro­vok­ing. Truly wise advice as we ven­ture out through life. Thank you for your kind com­ment on my blog:)
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3 Muthering Heights Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 4:25 pm

That’s a great quote!

4 Boomer Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 7:20 pm

Very nice! And wel­come to Sun­day Citar!!!

I’m late com­ment­ing and link­ing tonight because I had some com­puter trou­bles. But I do love Sun­day Citar!!! Have a great week and come see me some time! ?
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5 Boomer Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 7:20 pm

Very nice! And wel­come to Sun­day Citar!!!

I’m late com­ment­ing and link­ing tonight because I had some com­puter trou­bles. But I do love Sun­day Citar!!! Have a great week and come see me some time!
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6 Boomer Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 7:21 pm

Very nice! And wel­come to Sun­day Citar!

I am late com­ment­ing and link­ing tonight because I had some com­puter trou­bles. But I do love Sun­day Citar!

Have a great week and come see me some time!
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7 Boomer Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 7:23 pm

;-) Very nice! And wel­come to Sun­day Citar!
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8 Caroline Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 10:30 pm

I really love this quote…it will give me much to think about today.
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9 Amber for love notes Monday, July 13, 2009 at 6:30 am

first wel­come wel­com and for your very first quote it’s one I deeply admire. I love how you explain everything.

10 Tabitha Blue Monday, July 13, 2009 at 7:45 am

Oh this is a great quote!! So good! Great choice, and glad you joined in!

:)
~Tabitha
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11 James Monday, July 13, 2009 at 11:02 pm

Very nice quote! Loads of thoughts to take on board!

12 Jimson Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 8:49 pm

Quite sim­ple and very much teach­ing. Nice quote and i hope peo­ple learn some­thing from it. :mrgreen:

13 Stanley Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 7:14 am

You seem to enjoy writ­ing a lot and i hope that you con­tinue to do so in the near future. :mrgreen:
All your post i read all seem to be touching

14 Daniel da Silva Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 9:49 pm

:shock: Writ­ing so much beau­ti­ful posts is not so easy and i know that many peo­ple appre­ci­ate you writ­ing skills. You write unimag­in­ably well as you tend to touch peo­ples emo­tions. ;-)

15 Rayhan Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 9:50 pm

I also do believe “There are always hope.” Thanks for the nice post. I will keep it as my bookmark.

16 Mike Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 2:34 am

Why the hell am i get­ting fan of you i can­not con­trol myself for apprais­ing you because your writ­ing style has touched me !you are really a great writer why dont you try it on the world level com­pe­ti­tion ?i am sure you will suc­ceed in it! :!: :idea:
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17 markus Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 5:40 am

you have a very good writ­ing style i liked it really very cool!touched my heart & sense of feeling!thanks for it!

18 manuel Monday, July 20, 2009 at 1:44 am

:smile: You are a sim­ple and great writer and i am sure that many peo­ple would agree to me. The pic also is sim­ply awe­some.
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19 Tom from Fiberblend Monday, July 20, 2009 at 4:09 am

Very pro­found and very true (unless you are walk­ing on a cliff edge!) but I think hav­ing a quote that you like and hav­ing a set of ideals that you live by can be two dif­fer­ent things — its much harder to remind to your­self of it in ever­day life.
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20 Alan photography Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 4:20 am

nice photo
great
good sharing

21 Kate Clifford Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 11:11 am

Great pics, great posts, if you could just give us more… that would be won­der­ful :D

22 Sam Robson Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 11:12 am

Very nice quote! Loads of thoughts to take on board!

23 Gent Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 2:45 am

Grand Canyon link image is bro­ken. The image here has only 800×600 size. I love it, I want it on full res­o­lu­tion. Can you fix it?
Thanks a lot! :P

Hopeful Spirit 24 Hopeful Spirit Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 5:40 am

I just went to http://www.morguefile.com and the entire site is down. There is a mes­sage say­ing that they are hav­ing tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties. Since the whole site is down, the links to indi­vid­ual images will not work, either, so there is no other link I can pro­vide you. Just check again when the site returns to func­tion­al­ity and, hope­fully, the link to that page will work then.

HS

25 Edward Friday, July 31, 2009 at 12:57 am

The girl seems to express her thoughts freely.

26 Anonymous Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 7:37 am

doesn’t that pic­ture just make you want to pack away the com­puter, fill a rusk­sack with some treats, get the hik­ing boots on and get out­side and enjoy the fresh air! My com­puter is going off.…now!

27 Anonymous Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 7:39 am

This quote and espe­cially the pic­ture just makes you want to get out­side and enjoy the fresh air! i’m off to do that right now — thanks!

28 Anonymous Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 11:14 am

I agree with this quote and the pic­ture is awe­some — how­ever its also impor­tant to ensure that goal is not self­ish and you look down to con­sider the views/emotions of oth­ers as well as your own path

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