Unsettled, a bird lost from the flock --
Keeps flying by itself in the dusk.
Back and forth, it has no resting place,
Night after night, more anguished its cries.
Its shrill sound yearns for the pure and distant --
Coming from afar, how anxiously it flutters!

It chances to find a pine tree growing all apart;
Folding its wings, it has come home at last.
In the gusty wind there is no dense growth;
This canopy alone does not decay.
Having found a perch to roost on,
In a thousand years it will not depart.

Tao Yuanming

Stichwörter: sufi me simons-rock yggdrasil nightengale ugly-duckling

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There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

Criss Jami

Stichwörter: strength reason purpose people god gift beautiful ugly-duckling endure duckling swan

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The woman must look like the weathered side of a rotted fence post if she had to get a man this way.

Lindsey Brookes

Stichwörter: humor ugly-duckling

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