Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Genesis]

“She is a friend of mind.
She gather me, man.
The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”

– Toni Morrison, Beloved

[Genesis]

“
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”

– Janet Fitch, White Oleander

[Genesis]

“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century,
to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”

– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love In The Time Of Cholera

[Jesse]

“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” - Ann Wigmore

[Bubala]

Q: They say that you smile and laugh when you're sad?
A: Yes.
Q: But, you're smiling now!?
A: I know.

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

We can only be said to be alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures...”

- Thornton Wilder

[Genesis]

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[BullDog]

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

- Oscar Wilde

[Orema]

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[LOQUI]

"There is only one meaning of live: the act of living itself."
-Erich Fromm-

[Jesse]

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. -Robert Bloch, (Psycho author)

[Orema]

I am a woman. That means I break hard. And mend like a motherfucker; all sexy and full of heartbreakingly beautiful scars. —Staceyann Chin

[Genesis]

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[Bubala]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Bubala]

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[Genesis]

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[Bubala]

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[Bubala]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Jesse]

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[Orema]

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[Bubala]

She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the Universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings. #❤ ️

[Orema]

... There is nothing in any anti-discrimination bill that would encourage the hordes of “heterosexual perverts” that so concern Mr. (Glenn) Beck and Mr. (Ted) Cruz to storm women’s restrooms and assault innocent people. And there is nothing in the recent spate of “bathroom bills” that is going to prevent that from happening.

But that’s not really what the bills’ supporters want. Their real goal is to scare people, to divide Americans, and to make us believe that some of us are better and more righteous than others.
— Andrew Rosenthal

From: The Real Purpose of the 'Bathroom Bill' (http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/the-real-purpose-of-bathroom-bills/?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0)

[Soon]

"Perfection is the enemy of good."

-- Voltaire

[Genesis]

Be like the sun for grace and mercy.
Be like the night to cover others' faults.
Be like running water for generosity.
Be like death for rage and anger.
Be like the Earth for modesty.
Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

- Rumi

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead
or smiling into your eyes
or just staring into space...

— Marilyn Monroe

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

Do not look for signs.
Do not look for experiences.
Do not be so complicated.
Become like a child.
See everything with awe.

- Robert Adams

[Orema]

What we want is a kind of colorblindness. We think that's the answer. But color blindness isn't the answer. Color isn't the problem. Racism is the problem. And being conscious of racism is the solution. —Ta-Nehisi Coates

[Genesis]

"Whatever life takes away from you,
let it go..."
- Don Miguel Ruiz

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Orema]

Racism is a physical experience for black people. It's a visceral experience. It's not theoretical. It's not philosophical. It has to do at every step with you trying to find some way to safeguard your body. —Ta-Nehisi Coates

[Orema]

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[Soon]

“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”
― Kahlil Gibran

[Bubala]

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[Bubala]

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[Bubala]

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[Soon]

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[Bubala]

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[Genesis]

When you become a lover of what is, there are no more decisions to make. In my life, I just wait and watch. I know that the decision will be made in its own time, so I let go of when, where and how. I like to say I'm a woman with no future. When there are no decisions to make, there's no planned future. All my decisions are made for me, just as they're all made for you. When you mentally tell yourself the story that you have something to do with it, you're attaching to an underlying belief.

For 43 years, I was always buying in to my stories about the future, buying in to my insanity. I would often return from a long trip to find the house full of dirty laundry, piles of mail on my desk, the bathroom a mess, and the sink piled high with dishes.

The first time this happened, I heard a voice that said, "Do the dishes." It was like coming upon the burning bush and the voice from the bush said, "Do the dishes."

It didn't sound very spiritual to me, but I just followed its directions. I would stand at the sink and just wash the next dish, or sit with the piles of bills and pay the one on top. Just one at a time. Nothing else was required. At the end of the day, everything would be done, and I didn't need to understand who or what did it.

When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out. It sounds like this: "I'll do them later. I should have done them by now. My roommate should have done them. It's not my turn. It's not fair. People will think less of me if I don't do them now."

The stress and weariness you feel is mental combat fatigue.

What I call "doing the dishes" is the practice of loving the task in front of you. Your inner voice guides you all day long to do simple things such as brush your teeth, drive to work, call your friend, or do the dishes. Even though it's just another story, it's a very short story, and when you follow the direction of the voice, that story ends.

We are really alive when we live as simply as that – open, waiting, trusting, and loving to do what appears in front of us now.

What we need to do unfolds before us, always – doing the dishes, paying the bills, picking up the children's socks, brushing our teeth. We never receive more than we can handle, and there is always just one thing to do. Life never gets more difficult than that.

– An excerpt from Loving What Is, Byron Katie.

[Orema]

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

—Dashiell Hammett

[Genesis]

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[Jesse]

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[Orema]

Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.
—Yuri Kochiyama

[Orema]

My vote is my voice ... and the voice of all who struggled, so that I may have my voice. —Lydia C. Obasi

[Jesse]

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[Orema]

There is a scene in “Lemonade” that highlights Sybrina Fulton, Gwenn Carr and Lesley McSpadden holding portraits of their sons, respectively: Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown. And these three women also appear in other segments of the visual album. As I watched, I was struck by the physical beauty of all three women, but I was also left to ponder: how do they wake up each morning, wipe their grieving eyes, and still continue to do good in the world?

Beyoncé’s work forces us to see these women not only as grieving mothers, but so much more—they are tied to the legacy of black women on plantations who nurtured children they knew would be sold at auction. They are connected to black women who preached in the clearing, knowing they would never be welcome in someone’s pulpit. They are connected to black women who practiced the healing arts, when the doors of the hospital were closed to colored people. All the black women in “Lemonade” are connected to a long line of women who conjured a life when the forces of racism and sexism insisted that they weren’t worthy of living.

Art is always a resource for spiritual reflection, and “Lemonade” is an aural and visual feast for black women who cannot find reflections of themselves in the liturgy, sacred texts, icons, and stained glass of their own traditions. It is a work that is particular and specific: it is a love letter and an ode to black women, deeply rooted in African-American history.

—from Black Women and the Sacred: With 'Lemonade' Beyonce Takes Us to Church (http://religiondispatches.org/black-women-and-the-sacred-beyonce-takes-us-to-church/) by Yolanda Pierce,

[Jesse]

Too much is no good, but plenty is alright! - Me ;)

[Stone-Butch]

I'LL FIND A WAY OR MAKE IT.

IT WAS A NOBLE ROMAN, IN ROME'S IMPERIAL DAY,
WHO HEARD A COWARD CROAKER, BEFORE THE CASTE SAY,-
"THEY'RE SAFE IN SUCH A FORTRESS; THERE IS NO WAY TO SHAKE IT"!
"ON! ON!" EXCLAIMED THE HERO; "I'LL FIND A WAY, OR MAKE IT."

IS FAME YOUR ASPIRATION? HER PATH IS STEEP AND HIGH;
IN VAIN HE SEEKS HER TEMPLE; CONTENT TO GAZE AND SIGH.
THE SHINING THRONE IS WAITING, BUT HE ALONE CAN TAKE IT
WHO SAYS WITH ROMAN FIRMNESS, "I'LL FIND A WAY OR MAKE IT"!

IS LEARNING YOUR AMBITION? THERE IS NO ROYAL ROAD;
ALIKE THE PEER AND PEASANT MUST CLIMB TO HER ABODE;
WHO FEELS THE THURST FOR KNOWLEDGE , IN HELICON MAY SLAKE IT,
IF HE HAS STILL THE ROMAN WILL, "TO FIND A WAY, OR MAKE IT!"

ARE RICHES WORTH THE GETTING? THEY MUST BE BRAVELY SOUGHT;
WITH WISHING AND WITH FRETTING THE BOON CANNOT BE BOUGHT;
TO ALL THE PRIZE IS OPEN, BUT ONLY HE CAN TAKE IT,
WHO SAYS, WITH ROMAN COURAGE, "I'LL FIND A WAY, OR MAKE IT !"

[Jesse]

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands
of miles and all the years you have lived. - Helen Keller


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[Nat]

Matthieu Caldwell, Metaphysician:

"In Gil Scott Heron's song "Not Needed", Heron croons about the dreary existence of irrelevance. Through music he captures a universal feeling that is perhaps the source of existential angst. Modern cognitive psychology lends credence to what heart has known for ages. The essence of cognition is constructing a narrative in which the ego is placed at the center. In our minds we each star in our own personal dramas. This is why theatre, literature, movies, operas, etc have such an appeal to the human psyche because they mirror the very mechanism which constructs each person's subjective reality. Awareness of this phenomena can help one understand the source of their despair and illuminate paths that can help lead them out of the dark and menacing labyrinth that is their life story.

In American culture the most people's personal dramas focus on the work place. America is a land that idolizes money and thus working becomes our primary method of worship. It is analogous to the ascetic's suffering. Every morning when the average American sits down at this desk to begin another day at work he is like a monk who kneels down at the alter hungry and ready to please his Lord. At work the drama unfolds in harrowing epics in which Sergeant Romeo attempts to woo Major Juliet so that he may get the sweet jewels of loves exhalation via a promotion. God forbid, if one fails to woo their beloved Juliet, only despair rules the heart that fails to attain true love. While this language may seem melodramatic for some, its sentiment is quite fitting for many people whose lives are centered on the workplace. An important caveat to make is that each person's drama is unique. Some people live their lives with the scale of emotion and drama found in a Shakespearean drama whereas some people are content living the life of a carefree character in a SITCOM. Regardless of the weight of importance each person feels they are still fundamentally shaped by a need to feel relevant.


Many people find the need to feel relevant to everyone they meet. The proverbial people pleaser is not just content with being the hero of their own drama but they also need to universalize their heroism. They need to feel loved by everyone or else their life is a complete and miserable failure. American culture does an excellent job at exploiting this fundamental insecurity. At the root of advertising is the sinister voice that says "unless you purchase this product, people will not like you as much". No one attempts to sell a product any other way when it comes down to it.


So how do I fulfil my desire to feel relevant? Most of the world's religions argue that helping others is the ultimate relevancy. "Do unto others as you would have done onto you" is the golden rule the Christ imbues to his followers. Perhaps a deeper solution is given by Hinduism/Buddhism and that is to deny the very source of the drama. Thus the drama, consciousness itself is constructed off of an illusion (samsara) and the only way to escape is to deny the self until it dissolves into the unity of the world. This vision may seem too lofty and abstract but it really gets to the source of why we have dramas in the first place. The evolutionary psychologist would coyly reply that a drama created as a cognitive methods is most productive to survival. A scientific answer does nothing to relieve the primordial pain of meaningless that confronts every human being at one point of the other.


The best way to balance the drama of our lives is to have the heart of a child and the mind of a monk. The Bhagavad Gita says that “He who recognizes inaction in action and action in inaction is wise among men”. A child constructs fantasies with voracity, plays games with passion, loves unconditionally and always wants to have fun. A monk knows that the superficial appearance and game of the “real world” is a facade and mediates on what is real. To fuse these two aspects like Yin and Yang is to explore life with the passion and joy of a child while knowing in the mind with the sage of a Forest Dweller that “the real world” is a veil. This idea somewhat echoes Nietzche’s conception of the Overman who finds his will to power and exult his creativity over the conformity and constant moral guilt of the world. Like a child one should construct their own reality with the passion in their heart and love like the whole world was there mother who they depended upon for sustenance. Like a monk one should take the suffering a sick world seriously but with wisdom know the root cause of the cosmic drama."

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[Bubala]

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[Jesse]

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[Orema]

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[TL1]

"It’s better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest of your life."

[TL1]

"I have no flaws, I'm perfect at being imperfect."

[TL1]

"We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are."

-Maya Angelou

[Bubala]

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[Bubala]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

When love is not accepted move on;

when love is not appreciated walk away;

hopefully time will teach what real, true love is...

~ Rumi

[Genesis]

While the mind sees only boundaries,
Love knows the secret way there....

~ Rumi

[Genesis]

What comes, will go.
What is found, will be lost again.
But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.

You are It...

~ Rumi

[Jesse]

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? - Rene Descartes

[Orema]

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[TL1]

"No great artist sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

[Orema]

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[Genesis]

“When someone you love dies,
and you’re not expecting it,
you don’t lose her all at once;
you lose her in pieces over a long time — the way the mail stops coming,
and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers.
Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone.
Just when the day comes — when there’s a particular missing part
that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever — there comes another day, and another specifically missing part..."

–John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

[Genesis]

and
in the end
she was stronger
than the anguish.
she stood
impenetrable diamond
and the earth
itself
parted
to let
her pass.

-K. Augustus

[Genesis]

LOVE
yourself through
the storms,
Dance yourself
through the rain,
Bask in the
Sunshine of your
SOUL

~ Julie Parker

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Orema]

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need. —Ann Richards

[Bubala]

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[Orema]

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. —Samuel Johnson

[Orema]

https://shaunynews.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/steve-jobs-quotes-1024x658.jpg?w=593&h=381

[TL1]

"One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else."

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"Until man duplicates a blade of grass,
nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favour compared with the products of nature,
the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun,
the mother of all life."

- Thomas A. Edison

[Genesis]

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Poet: Prerna Salve

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

“One must learn to love,
and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it,
and the journey is always towards the other soul...”

- D.H. Lawrence

[Genesis]

"When we approach with reverence, great things decide to approach us.
Our real life comes to the surface and its light awakens the concealed beauty in things.
When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us.
The rushed heart and arrogant mind lack the gentleness and patience to enter that embrace...”

- John O'Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

[Stud_puppy1991]

"We are stories in the end, just make it a good one, eh? "- 11th Doctor

[BullDog]

Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives.

- Sara Paddison

[Orema]

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. —Malcolm X

[*Anya*]

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. —Malcolm X

Never more true than with the cult of Trump.

[BullDog]

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.

- Napoleon Hill

[TL1]

"Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."

[Orema]

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. —Maya Angelou

[TL1]

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

"Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much."

[LOQUI]

"Don't tell me what they said about me.
Tell me why they were so comfortable telling you."

[LOQUI]

"If you feel like you're being played, you probably are"

...maybe....perhaps...who knows... :|

[TL1]

"Don't get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn't even exist in the first place."

[Gemme]

Some of these quotes are great. Can the originator of the quotes be included with the posts?

[Orema]

If I wait for someone to validate my existance, I will shortchange myself. —Zanele Muholi

[TL1]

"Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul."

-Gianna Carini

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[LOQUI]

"Love can cloud our vision; make us see things as we wish to see them. See things, as they are not."

[kittygrrl]

"half of being smart, is knowing what you are dumb about"-Solomon Short

[LOQUI]

"A relationship means you come together to make each other better. It’s not all about you, and it’s not all about them. Its all about the relationship.
Support them in their dreams/vision just as much as you would expect them to support you. Make each other better. Challenge each other to go beyond average. Pull out the greatness from within each other.
Make sure they can find their biggest fan in you, and you can find yours in them."

-Trent Shelton

[Bubala]

"Come to me now once again and release me
from grueling anxiety.
All that my heart longs for,
fulfill. And be yourself my ally in love’s battle." Sapphic fragments

[Bubala]

"Because I remember, I despair. Because remember, I have duty to reject despair." Elie Wiesel

[Bubala]

"What does' hurt is not life, what doesn't pass is not happiness." Ivo Andric

[Bubala]

http://statusmind.com/images/2013/02/LifeFacebookStatusMindPictures-1318.jpg

[LOQUI]

There's only us
There's only this
Forget regret-- or life is yours to miss.
No other road
No other way
No day but today
There's only yes
Only tonight
We must let go
To know what is right
No other course
No other way
No day but today
There only now, there’s only here. Give in to love or live in fear it. No other path, no other way. No day but today.
RENT -

[Stone-Butch]

I do believe in the saying "Self praise is no Recommendation.

Hindi Proverb

[Orema]

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. —Marcus Aurelius

[Bèsame*]

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[LOQUI]

You
If you must wait,
Wait for them here in my arms as I shake
If you must weep,
Do it right here in my bed as I sleep
If you must mourn, my love
Mourn with the moon and the stars up above
If you must mourn,
Don't do it alone
If you must leave,
Leave as though fire burns under your feet
If you must speak,
Speak every word as though it were unique
If you must die, sweetheart
Die knowing your life was my life's best part
And if you must die,
Remember your life
You are
You are
Oh, you are
You are
Oh
If you must fight,
Fight with yourself and your thoughts in the night
If you must work,
Work to leave some part of you on this earth
If you must live, darling one,
Just live
Just live
Just live
Keaton Henson

[Orema]

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[kittygrrl]

The secret of Happiness, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less~Socrates

[Orema]

Feel the math. —Paul Krugman

[Orema]

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[Stone-Butch]

"I think, therefore I am" Meaning I think , therefore I exist.

Rene' Descartes

[Jesse]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CikibvgWgAA5VzZ.jpg

[TL1]

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

William James

[LOQUI]

"A half truth is a whole lie."
Yiddish Proverb

[Orema]

If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders. —Anonymous

[TL1]

"Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."
-Ralph Blum

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

The tranquillity of both worlds lies in the understanding of these two words:
generosity towards friends, forbearance towards enemies.
~ Sufi Saying

[LOQUI]

"Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life
staying true to a lie."
Robert Brault

[TL1]

“Braggin' is when a person says something and can’t do it. I do what I say.”

“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”

"Don’t count the days; make the days count."


“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”



"I shook up the world. Me! Whee!"



-Muhammad Ali

[Bubala]

“...the reading of many books brings wisdom, and the reading of one brings ignorance armed with rage and hatred.”
― Danilo Kiš

[Bubala]

“Witnessing the blind fury of this mob and seeing them kill before my eyes the Jews who refused to be converted (some out of faith, and others from that pride which can sometimes be perilous), I answered that I would rather be converted than killed, since, in spite of everything, the temporary agony of being is more valuable than the ultimate void of nothingness.”
― Danilo Kiš, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

[Bubala]

“I wish to live in peace with myself and not with the world.”
― Danilo Kiš, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

[LOQUI]

“I admired so many things about you. Almost everything. But I don’t want to wind up like you. I don’t want to starve to death, all alone on some island inside my own head. Hopeless.”
― Jenna Brooks

[Genesis]

We woke to wool and roses,
and the smell of wet wood
creaking in a hypnosis
that only we understood.

A dime of sun swayed
on a burlap bed
that, unmade,
cradled your sea-turned head.

We were marooned:
and to the seeping wind
we had become attuned,
our hardened hearts chagrined.

You woke with lips of salt,
and fistfuls of fabric.
Wool and roses, you’d exalt,
our unpracticed kind of magic.

Waking never lasted long,
and with the gulls you weeped.
Tossed across the sea nightlong,
waves carried us to sleep.

© 2016 Stellular Scribe

[Orema]

Today’s G.O.P. is to governing what Trump University is to education — an ethically challenged enterprise that enriches and perpetuates itself by shedding all pretense of standing for real principles, or a truly relevant value proposition, and instead plays on the ignorance and fears of the public. —Thomas L. Friedman

[TL1]

"A very little key will open a very heavy door."


-Charles Dickens

[LOQUI]

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor...
If you love me, I'll always be in your heart...
If you hate me, I'll will always be in your mind.
-William Shakespeare-

[Electrocell]

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' Martin Luther King, Jr.


How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver

[TL1]

"People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but they will always show you. Pay attention."


"Real isn't who's with you at your celebration. Real is who's standing next to you at rock bottom."

[Orema]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"... To be human
is to become visible
while carrying
what is hidden
as a gift to others.

To remember
the other world
in this world
is to live in your
true inheritance.

You are not
a troubled guest
on this earth,
you are not
an accident
amidst other accidents
you were invited
from another and greater
night
than the one
from which
you have just emerged ..."

- David Whyte

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[TL1]

"Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe."

[Genesis]

"Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Genesis]

“Though my soul may set in darkness,
it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

- Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

[Orema]

No comment.
—Most Republican politicians when asked for comments on presumptive GOP nominee, Donald Trump.

[Kätzchen]

"One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags, and no countries and the only passport will the heart," ~ Carlos Santana.

[Genesis]

"I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.
Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy."

- Og Mandino

[grenade]

Song by Allen Ginsberg


The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction

the weight,
the weight we carry
is love.

Who can deny?
In dreams
it touches
the body,
in thought
constructs
a miracle,
in imagination
anguishes
till born
in human--
looks out of the heart
burning with purity--
for the burden of life
is love,

but we carry the weight
wearily,
and so must rest
in the arms of love
at last,
must rest in the arms
of love.

No rest
without love,
no sleep
without dreams
of love--
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines,
the final wish
is love
--cannot be bitter,
cannot deny,
cannot withhold
if denied:

the weight is too heavy

--must give
for no return
as thought
is given
in solitude
in all the excellence
of its excess.

The warm bodies
shine together
in the darkness,
the hand moves
to the center
of the flesh,
the skin trembles
in happiness
and the soul comes
joyful to the eye--

yes, yes,
that's what
I wanted,
I always wanted,
I always wanted,
to return
to the body
where I was born.

San Jose, 1954

I had this running through my head in the shower last night. I knew I had posted it before. I remember the first time I read this. I was 14.

[Bubala]

http://www.imagesbuddy.com/images/143/youll-never-find-a-better-sparring-partner-than-adversity-golda-meir.jpg

[Genesis]

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[Talon]

To play a wrong note is insignificant, to play without passion is inexcusable.


🎼 Beethoven

[grenade]

Maybe all that we are is what people expect us to be.

Robert M. Drake

[TL1]

"I am an adventurer, looking for treasure."

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[BestButchBoy]

"When one chapter passes, all it means is that a new one is going to begin, and it’s likely to be more positive than the last. What’s the next chapter for me? No idea. All I know for sure is that new chapters create amazing people who go out there and change the world."

[Jesse]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XBhjrGNosZk/UiaOhXiQLqI/AAAAAAAAUrM/w8cMyfStz1I/w426-h465/photo.jpg

[Orema]

The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.—actor and humanitarian, Jesse Williams

[Orema]

“This award, this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country. The activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students, that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do.

All right? It’s kind of basic mathematics:, the more we learn about who we are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize. Now this is also in particular for the black women, in particular, who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and will do better for you.

Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. So what’s going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours.

Now — I’ve got more, y’all. Yesterday would’ve been young Tamir Rice’s 14th birthday, so I don’t want to hear anymore about how far we’ve come when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on a 12-year-old playing alone in a park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going home to make a sandwich. Tell Rekia Boyd how it’s so much better to live in 2012 than 1612 or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner. Tell that to Sandra Bland. Tell that to Darrien Hunt.

Now the thing is though, all of us in here getting money, that alone isn’t going to stop this. All right? Now dedicating our lives to get money just to give it right back for someone’s brand on our body, when we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies and now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies.

There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There has been no job we haven’t done, there’s been no tax they haven’t levied against us, and we’ve paid all of them. But freedom is somehow always conditional here. “You’re free,” they keep telling us. But she would’ve been alive if she hadn’t acted so… “free.”

Now, freedom is always coming in the hereafter. But, you know what though? The hereafter is a hustle. We want it now. And let’s get a couple of things straight, just a little side note: The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. That’s not our job, all right, stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.

We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind, while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil, black gold. Ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is, though, the thing is that just because we’re magic, doesn’t mean we’re not real.”

Actor and humanitarian, Jesse Williams, speech given after receiving BET's Humanatarian Award, June 26, 2016

[LOQUI]

"Anything that costs you your peace
is too expensive."
- Unknown (at least to me)-

[Jesse]

Hmm...seems the internet monster ate the last quote I posted.


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[BestButchBoy]

Beginning today,
treat everyone
you meet
as if
they were
going to be
dead
by midnight.
Extend them
all the
care,
kindness
and
understanding
you
can muster.
Your life
will never
be the same again.
OG MANDINO

[BullDog]

"I remember every player - every single one - who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, or in a correctional institution as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway."

- Pat Summitt
from her book Sum It Up

RIP Pat. I am so fortunate to have seen you coach at the Summitt in Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville. It was an unbelievable experience. My heart bleeds orange.

[TL1]

"We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love."

-Robert Fulghum

[LOQUI]

"Everything that irritates us about others
Can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Jung -

[ThorClaxton]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6e/77/8d/6e778d6061db527517c4dc2c93ebd07e.jpg

[LOQUI]

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."
- Sun Tzu -

[Jesse]

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[LOQUI]

"Sometimes you can get so busy
trying to be someone else's anchor
that you don't even realize that you are actually drowning."

[LOQUI]

"Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half."
-Unknown-

[Bubala]

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[BestButchBoy]

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[gotoseagrl]

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

The only thing you ever have is now.

Eckhart Tolle

[Toska]

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

~Oscar Wilde

[Orema]

With Obama, the Personal Is Presidential (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/opinion/with-obama-the-personal-is-presidential.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0) by Timothy Egan, New York Times Opinion Page

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Photo Credit Luke Sharrett for The New York Times

We always knew he could keep his head when others were losing theirs and blaming him, knew it from the 2008 financial crisis and on to the hard, lasting words he spoke at Tuesday’s memorial for the slain police officers in Dallas.

What we didn’t know, what could not be predicted of one so young and new to the impossible task of living round-the-clock under the glare of the entire world, was how Barack Obama would hold up as a father, a husband, a man.

No matter what you think of Obama the executive branch, it’s hard to argue that Obama the human being has been anything less than a model of class and dignity. If, as was often said about black pioneers in sports, you had to be twice as good to succeed, Obama’s personal behavior has set a standard few presidents have ever reached.

You see him singing happy birthday to his daughter Malia, on the day she turned 18 this past Fourth of July, or coaching his daughter Sasha at hoops, and you see his ambition, still, to be “the father I never had.”

You see him teasing, bantering or dancing with his wife of nearly a quarter-century. And while no outsider can know what goes on inside another’s marriage, you can’t help feeling some of the joy of that union. They still finish each other’s sentences.

It’s not fair to give him his due as a person, his high grade for character, for being scandal-free in his private life, just because a potential successor has no character, no class, and breaches a new wall of civility every time he opens his mouth. If Obama had bragged about infidelities and the size of his genitals, if Obama had talked about wanting to date his own daughter and reduced women to a number on a hotness scale, it would be about race. But when Donald Trump says such things, nobody ties it to his being white, nor should they. Trump is a singular kind of vulgarian.

And those who praise Obama as a model father or husband for the black family do him a disservice. He’s a model, without asterisk for race. It’s a hard thing to go nearly eight years as the most powerful man in the world without diminishing the office or alienating your family. He’s done that, and added a dash of style and humor and a pitch-perfect sense for being consoler in chief.

As we saw again this week, when he took the deep breath for us, when he begged us not to let hearts turn to stone when the world is a quarry of hate, he is at his best when the rest of us are at our worst. We will long remember him singing “Amazing Grace” at that service for people slaughtered in a Charleston church, their deaths a hate crime. And we may well remember him trying to wring something teachable from the ambush of police officers; their deaths also a hate crime.

“All of us, we make mistakes,” he said. “And at times we are lost. And as we get older, we learn we don’t always have control of things — not even a president does. But we do have control over how we respond to the world. We do have control over how we treat one another.”

Historical comparisons will be kind to him. You respect John F. Kennedy for his flair and wit, but wince at how he hurt his wife through numerous affairs. You admire Lyndon B. Johnson for his courage in civil rights, but are appalled at how bathroom-level bawdy he was in private. You appreciate Ronald Reagan for his charm and friendships across the aisle, but can’t ignore how dysfunctional his family was. Under Richard Nixon, the White House was a crime scene. Under Bill Clinton, it was a place of monumental self-indulgence.

What’s remarkable is that Obama hasn’t turned Nixonian or hard. He was the only president to have his Americanism challenged, the only president to be heckled with “You lie!” before a joint session of Congress. And the smears keep coming. Barely a week ago, Fox News flashed pictures of a young Obama attending his African half brother’s wedding in Muslim garb — proof, Bill O’Reilly said, of the president’s “deep emotional ties to Islam.”

For Obama, holding it together as a person has only occasionally translated to political triumph. The first African-American president is leaving office at a moment when more than two-thirds of Americans think race relations are bad — a sharp increase from the dawn of his presidency. He acknowledged some of this failure in Dallas.

“Now, I’m not naïve,” he said. “I’ve seen how inadequate words can be in bringing about lasting change. I’ve seen how inadequate my own words have been.”

On eleven occasions — Newtown, Tucson, Charleston, Dallas, among the venues of despair — he’s tried to summon words to heal a wound. If the words have sometimes failed him and us, the man, in his personal behavior, has not.

[Genesis]

She Walks in Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

- Lord Byron (George Gordon)

[LOQUI]

"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."
-unknown-

[TL1]

"Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end also began with a kiss."
-Dennis Sharpe

[Orema]

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[Orema]

Rep. Steve King said white people contributed most to civilization. Melania Trump then showed us how...by stealing from a Person of Color.

— Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) July 19, 2016

[Kobi]

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[Orema]

Five years from now no one will remember if you're late on a deadline, but everyone will remember if you go to print with errors. —said by someone I worked with eons ago

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

“I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet--
within the chambers of a quivering heart.”

- Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

[Blade]

"Donald, you're not fit to polish John McCain's boots"
Rear Admiral John Hutson

In reference to Donald Trump's comment about John McCain

[JDeere]

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

[Talon]

Any way you want it
that's the way you need it


--Journey

[Genesis]

“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself,
to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself,
like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.”

- Masaru Emoto, The Secret Life of Water

[BullDog]

My fellow citizens,

The rise of this blusterous man bewilders the educated among us, conjoins opposing politicians, agonizes our international allies, threatens minorities, spits on the disabled, and touches the hearts of those who just don't know any better.

Let us stop propounding how mad this all is, but instead, do something.

Liselotte Hubner
Germany, 1929

[*Anya*]

"I never saw any of them again—except the cops.

No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them".

~The Long Goodbye~ Raymond Chandler

[Jesse]

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[Jesse]

https://img1.etsystatic.com/046/0/5517485/il_170x135.661606531_cg4q.jpg

[Talon]

As conscious beings, we must go inward to activate our evolution.


~Deepak Chopra

[Genesis]

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[Orema]

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[Orema]

Do not change for the ones who think you should be softer, less mouth, less voice, less anything. You do not owe regrow to anyone but yourself.

—Sonia Sanchez

[homoe]

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor. Joan Rivers

[homoe]

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. ~Erma Bombeck:hangloose:

[homoe]

The trouble with living alone is that it’s always your turn to do the dishes. ~Author Unknown

[homoe]

A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners. ~Irish Saying:hangloose:

[homoe]

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. Bette Midler

[Genesis]

Love is a divine energy
that steps into human circumstances,
a timeless essence that enters time
and then things become categorically different.
Time has a strange new quality.
It passes before we have a moment to rest in it.
There’s a new softness in our midst,
a way of being with one another,
that is gracious and gentle and kind.
There is also a beautiful strangely infiltrating awareness,
a mystic pulse of connection
that seems to be gathering us together.

- Daphne Rose Kingma

[BullDog]

Do I fear love? Yes, in the same way I fear the ocean. I only cross its depths when I'm equipped. I respect love as it were the sea. Both have their own power: their own way. I am obliged to bend to their will, or become another casualty who has mistakenly thought themselves smart enough to tame them. I stand in awe of love.

I will only try and navigate its vast and wonderful depths with someone who is in awe of love too.

Michael Xavier

[Orema]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights,
and you are one of the lights,
the light of all lights.”

- Bram Stoker, Dracula

[Genesis]

I will seek elegance rather than luxury,
refinement rather than fashion.
I will seek to be worthy more than respectable,
wealthy and not rich.
I will study hard, think quietly, talk gently, and act frankly.
I will listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with an open heart.
I will bear all things cheerfully, do all things bravely await occasions and hurry never.
In a word I will let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.

- William Ellery Channing

[Kätzchen]

http://awesome11.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Short-Quotes-About-Life.jpg

[*Anya*]

Mister Rogers:

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

[Smiling]

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

Happy Friendship Day. :rrose:

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

Breathing in, I know I’m breathing in.
Breathing out, I know
As the in-breath grows deep,
The out-breath grows slow.
Breathing in makes me calm.
Breathing out makes me ease.
With the in-breath, I smile.
With the out-breath, I release.
Breathing in, there is only the present moment.
Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"Your best is going to change from moment to moment;
it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.
Under any circumstance, simply do your best,
and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

[Orema]

"There has to be a point in which you say 'enough.'" —President Barack Obama

[Kobi]

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[Genesis]

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[Kobi]

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[Orema]

Most of Trump’s dangerous qualities boil down to these two fundamental dangers. He knows very little but thinks he knows a lot. And most of the things he doesn’t know, he doesn’t know they’re worth knowing.

—from The Scariest Nominee of Our Time (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2016/08/a_trump_win_would_lead_to_a_nuclear_arms_race_and_ a_collapse_of_sanctions.html) by Fred Kaplan

[Kobi]

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[Kobi]

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[gotoseagrl]

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

H.P. Lovecraft