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"Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh."
-Katharine Hepburn |
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." - John Kenneth Galbraith |
"Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors." - Paulo Freire |
"Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding."- Marcus Aurelius |
"Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s the day to day living that wears you out."
—Anton Chekhovov |
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
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'Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.' Iyanla Vanzant
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~ Let go of the place that holds, let go of the place that flinches, let go of the place that controls, let go of the place that fears. Just let the ground support me. ~ ~ Stephanie Kaza ~ |
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." ~ Henry Miller ~ |
"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy
or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between." — Sylvia Plath |
"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
— Sylvia Plath |
"Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence
and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning." — Sylvia Plath |
"What did my fingers do before they held him?
What did my heart do, with its love?" — Sylvia Plath |
"Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power"
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Like a puma in the barren wilderness Pablo Neruda I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent, starving I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disquiets me, I search the liquid sound of your steps all day. I hunger for your sleek laugh, For your hands the color of the wild grain, I hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your loveliness, The nose, sovereign of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, And I walk hungry, smelling the twilight Looking for you, for your hot heart, Like a puma in the barren wilderness. |
"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."~ Martha Washington
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Coming to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically improve your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the actions you take. And as you begin to treat yourself with more respect, other people begin to do the same, since we subconsciously "train" others how to treat us through messages we send through body language, tone of voice, and other subtle cues and behaviors. Discovering your innate worth and living from that place allows you to make more constructive choices--to choose the higher roads of life.
Dan Millman |
"To be able to move on, one has to learn to forgive not only the person (or people) who have done one wrong but also oneself" - Eugenia Tripputi |
"When you start to abandoning your old beliefs or values... you may be stuck at the threshold for two or three years. Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs." - Dick Raymond |
"Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power." - Blaine Lee |
A heart can be broken; but it keeps beating just the same.
-- Fried Green Tomatoes |
Friedrich Nietzsche
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. |
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
~Jim Davis |
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
~Buddy Hackett |
I make this vow to never squander me again
~Denton Welch |
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
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Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be,
it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally “count our blessings,” give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have. Shakti Gawain |
To be free yourself, you have to release everyone else.
Stephen C. Paul |
I wanted my hands to be rain for her to wash away all hurt
~Minnie Bruce Pratt |
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When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now, Will be a tattered weed of small worth held. Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To say within thine own deep sunken eyes, Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use, If thou couldst answer, "This fair child of mine Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse," Proving his beauty by succession thine. This were to be new made when thou art old, And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold. William Shakespeare |
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity. -- Dan Custer |
Upon Discovering My Entire Solution to the Attainment of Immortality Erased from the Blackboard Except the Word 'Save' *
by Dobby Gibson If you have seen the snow somewhere slowly fall on a bicycle, then you understand all beauty will be lost and that even loss can be beautiful. And if you have looked at a winter garden and seen not a winter garden but a meditation on shape, then you understand why this season is not known for its words, the cold too much about the slowing of matter, not enough about the making of it. So you are blessed to forget this way: jump rope in the ice melt, a mitten that has lost its hand, a sun that shines as if it doesn't mean it. And if in another season you see a beautiful woman use her bare hands to smooth wrinkles from her expensive dress for the sake of dignity, but in so doing reveal the outlines of her thighs, then you will remember surprise assumes a space that has first been forgotten, especially here, where we rarely speak of it, where we walk out onto the roofs of frozen lakes simply because we're stunned we really can. |
She has been too frightened to carry out any strategy, but now a road is opening up before her.
- Julia Alvarez (How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) |
No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.
Geneen Roth Women, Food, and God |
"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something resricted to youth . How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40- and half things he know at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"
Arthur C. Clark |
The Devil's Advocate
Kevin Lomax: What about love?
John Milton: Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate. ======== Kevin Lomax: What are you? John Milton: Oh, I have so many names... Kevin Lomax: Satan, Lucifer. John Milton: Call me Dad. ======== Kevin Lomax: God dammit, what did you do to my wife ?!?! John Milton: Well, on a scale of one to ten... ten being the most depraved act of sexual theatre known to man... one being your average Friday night run-through at the Lomaxes' household... I'd say, not to be immodest, Mary Ann and I got it on at about... [counts on his fingers] John Milton: ... seven.[grins] |
Your eyes are the sweetest stars I've ever seen.
-- Moulin Rouge |
Follow
Take my hand and follow me
to that place I long to be. Take my hand and trust my way, in that place forever stay. Follow me toward the sand; we'll run and play, hand in hand. Take my heart and hold it true; forever I'll stay close to you. Seize my words and listen well, then forever I will tell. Release your heart and feelings too, just as I will do for you. Trust your heart and follow me, to that place we long to be. |
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough, but not baked in the same oven.
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