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You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~Usman B. Asif Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it. ~Henry S. Haskins Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. ~Brendan Francis |
The real secret to loveliness is being lovely.
~ Girl Scout Handbook |
"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can
acquire, but my heart is all my own." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
"One can not think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." - Virginia Woolf |
"The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. "
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture) |
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
~Michelangelo |
Some stories are true that never happened.
~Elie Weisel |
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. ~Frank Barron |
"That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him.
Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison." — Patricia Briggs (Bone Crossed) |
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
~Frank Leahy |
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
- Lena Home |
"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain." ~Author Unknown |
"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again." ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker |
"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal." ~From a headstone in Ireland |
Beauty
"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty is everywhere, all around an in each one of us. Yet where do we put our attention? On what we have decided is "wrong?" On what we think needs to be "fixed?" There is beauty in these things, too - if we would only look for it. There is a lesson, a gift, a treasure to be found in every situation and circumstance. We can acknowledge it or turn away from it - but it is there nonetheless. -Lissa Coffey |
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Tom Robbins |
"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." - Doug Larson
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. -Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)
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Death is a tax the Soul
has to pay... for having had a name and form- Hazrat Khan |
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Nature has given to each conscious being every
power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit. Marcus Aurelius |
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;
the real tragedy is when adults are afraid of the light. Plato |
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth
can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. M. Scott Peck |
Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about
becoming more fully human. . . It is the end of ignorance. Lama Surya Das |
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
~Kahlil Gibran |
This has been on my mind lately...
How I see a relationship... Any type...
I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land. But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine. Pablo Neruda... Tend your lover well... Least you find yourself uprooted... |
"No" is a complete sentence."
— Anne Lamott |
Sometimes, “No” has to be so strong
that there are many fences around it to make sure it stays, “No.” |
Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.
- Julia Child |
“The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it”
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Some children's book
"Promise me that you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think."
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I just saw her on TV...she's amazing!
I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
~Loretta Lynn |
I have been on a hiatus from allowing people in my space enough to actually connect and grow....I broke my own heart a couple of years ago when I was too young to really grasp that love is more than the false expectations and hopes I heard as a young girl in story books. A dear friend of mine brought me a quote that hit spot on for me...to the point where I got overwhelmed in the revelation. Not sure if this will mean anything as profound as it did to me to any of you but nevertheless I feel compelled to share.
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two." -St. Augustine |
[little tree]by e. e. cummings
little tree little silent Christmas tree you are so little you are more like a flower who found you in the green forest and were you very sorry to come away? see i will comfort you because you smell so sweetly i will kiss your cool bark and hug you safe and tight just as your mother would, only don't be afraid look the spangles that sleep all the year in a dark box dreaming of being taken out and allowed to shine, the balls the chains red and gold the fluffy threads, put up your little arms and i'll give them all to you to hold every finger shall have its ring and there won't be a single place dark or unhappy then when you're quite dressed you'll stand in the window for everyone to see and how they'll stare! oh but you'll be very proud and my little sister and i will take hands and looking up at our beautiful tree we'll dance and sing "Noel Noel" |
One great burst of disobedience is the beginning of freedom. Without it we never grow up.
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“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.” - Bill Cosby |
“May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.” - Author Unknown |
"Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.” - Josh Harnett |
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Louis Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Albert Einstein.” ~H. Jackson Brown
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