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We turn not older with years but newer every day.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Birthday
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Inspirational, Life
c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

You can stay young as long as you learn.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

I dwell in possibility.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Recovery, Addiction
"I dwell in possibility" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Motivational, Failure
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1120, Delphi Classics

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Sweet
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2023, Delphi Classics

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Inspirational, Life

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Wise
" 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Success
Emily Dickinson, “We Never Know How High We Are (1176)”

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Inspirational, Life
"If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Inspiring, Truth

The brain is wider than the sky.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Learning, Sky
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Women, Writing

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Break
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.289, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Relationship, Smile
Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.275, Courier Corporation

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Halloween
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Poems by Emily Dickinson”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
"Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them". Edited by Cristanne Miller,

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Art
Christopher E. G. Benfey, Emily Dickinson (1986). “Emily Dickinson: lives of a poet”, George Braziller

Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Light, Air
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1127, Delphi Classics

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