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"This moment contains all moments"
C.S. Lewis |
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama
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"A psychiatrist asks alot of expensive questions your wife ask for nothing."
Joey Adams |
marriage
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson |
It's amazing, isn't it, how some people see the basket half
empty and others see it half full. Some see life hopeless, others hopeful. Even when things are less than perfect, if you can think of the good, the beautiful, the hopeful, you'll be more than sustained--you'll conquer. unknown |
“I wake up every day with the realization that this is it, that there's only one shot at this life and I can either enjoy the ride and live it to its fullest and to my highest potential or I can stay the way I am.”- Unknown
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Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.
~Frank Tyger |
"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I"m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me a my worst, you damn sure don't deserve me at my best! " - Marilyn Monroe |
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
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As a doctor, I studied survivors--people who got sick but exceeded expectations. Many of those exceptional patients had been given little time to live, yet they were some of the happiest people I'd ever met. They knew, or they discovered through their illness, which became their teacher, that if you want to be happy, you must answer some key questions. What are you here for? And how do you want to spend your limited time? If your answer is that you are here to love, to serve others and not to be served, then you already have everything you need to be happy. If you wake up in the morning, that's enough; you are grateful for life and the opportunity to contribute in your way.
Bernie Siegel |
A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange.
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“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” -- Spencer Johnson
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JC (Johnny Cash)
"For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide," & "You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it either. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." |
Sans
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
- Jean Paul Richter |
What we are talking about is learning to live in the present
moment, in the now. When you aren't distracted by your own negative thinking, when you don't allow yourself to get lost in moments that are gone or yet to come, you are left with this moment. This moment-- now--truly is the only moment you have. It is beautiful and special. Life is simply a series of such moments to be experienced one right after another. If you attend to the moment you are in and stay connected to your soul and remain happy, you will find that your heart is filled with positive feelings. Sydney Banks |
“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.” -- Albert Camus
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Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
~ John Wooden |
"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
Mark Twain |
"A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants."
Mark Twain |
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. -Helen Keller
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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip
by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. James M. Barrie |
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
~Anthony Trollope |
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -Ingrid Bergman
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Quoting Shawshank Redemption, "...now I'm gonna pinch a loaf..."
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"I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep."
- Joseph de Maistre |
There is that law of life, so cruel
and so just- that one must grow, or else pay more for remaining the same. Norman Mailer, The Deer Park (1955) |
My Favorite Quote
Jimmy Dugan: Evelyn, could you come here for a second? Which team do you play for?
Evelyn Gardner: Well, I'm a Peach. Jimmy Dugan:Well I was just wonderin' why you would throw home when we got a two-run lead. You let the tying run get on second base and we lost the lead because of you. Start using your head. That's the lump that's three feet above your ass. [Evelyn starts to cry] Jimmy Dugan:Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There's no crying! THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL! Doris Murphy:Why don't you give her a break, Jimmy... Jimmy Dugan:Oh, you zip it, Doris! Rogers Hornsby was my manager, and he called me a talking pile of pigshit. And that was when my parents drove all the way down from Michigan to see me play the game. And did I cry? Evelyn Gardner:No, no, no. Jimmy Dugan:Yeah! NO. And do you know why? Evelyn Gardner:No... Jimmy Dugan:Because there's no crying in baseball. THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL! No crying! |
"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." ~ Unknown
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I want you to feel
the unbearable lack of me. I want your skin to yearn for the soft lure of mine; I want those hints of red on your canvas to deepen in passion for me: carmine, burgundy. I want you to keep stubbing your toe on the memory of me; I want your head to be dizzy and your stomach in a spin; I want you to hear my voice in your ear, to touch your face imagining it is my hand. I want your body to shiver and quiver at the mere idea of mine. I want you to feel as though life after me is dull, and pointless, and very, very aggravating; that with me you were lifted on a current you waited all your life to find, as though you were wading through a soggy swill of inanity and ugliness every minute we are apart. I want you to drive yourself crazy with the fantasy of me, and how we will meet again, against all odds, and there will be tears and flowers, and the vast relief of not I, but us. I am haunting your dreams, conducting these fevers from a distance, a distance that leaves me weeping, and storming, and bereft. |
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Yearn On by Katie Donovan Stunning, isn't it? |
"I poured olive oil on my food and rubbed it into my skin. I drank a glass of port wine everyday, and ate about two pounds of chocolate a week." -Jeanne Calment (The longest living person in modern history).
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Diva, this is the one. It's potent.
Entering the Mare by Katie Donovan
(The inauguration of an Irish chieftain, as observed by Gerald of Wales in the 12th century) She stamps and shivers, her white coat vainly shrugging, as the would-be chieftain plunges in, burying deep his puny, acrid man’s seed, between her fragrant haunches. The Goddess lives in her fine rearing head, the pink stretch of her lips, the wide, white-haired nostrils. Her hoof might have crippled him, her tail whipped out his arrogant eyes. Instead she jerks clumsily, trying to escape the smell of his hand. Later he swims in the soup of her flesh, sucking on her bones, chewing the delicate morsels of her hewn body. He has entered the Goddess, slain and swallowed her, and now bathes in her waters – a greedy, hairy, foetus. Rising from her remains in a surge of steam - her stolen momentum – he feels a singing gallop through his veins: a whinnying, mane-flung grace rippling down his spine. Riding off on the wings of the divine Epona, he lets loose his dogs to growl over her skeletal remnants, the bloody pickings in the bottom of his ceremonial bath. |
If people walk in the woods for the love of them half of each day, they are in danger of being regarded as loafers; but if they spend their whole day as speculators, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, they are esteemed industrious and enterprising citizens. As if a town had no interest in forests but to cut them down!
Henry David Thoreau |
What another would have
done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself--and thus make yourself indispensable. Andre Gide |
If he/she hits you once, he/she will hit you again. - me |
Mr. Bent...another luscious Katie Donovan work
CONFLUENCE
Beneath the amber hood of the street lamp, beside the black gates of the somnolent park, we are eyed by fanlights, flanked by motionless cars. In this blind Georgian lane you lean in to claim a kiss. I offer you my goodnight lips, staying like a shut purse in your embrace, wary after years of opening too fast my burns still hurt and proud. Yet the sweetness of your mouth, and your tongue — a luscious, sinuous sea-creature – is a feast I cannot resist; nor can I pull back from the strength in your arms as you draw me close, loosening your coat to fold me in your cinnamon heat. Here it is, timeless, a scene on a street: a man and a woman tongued and grooved into one. |
"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."
~ J.W. von Goethe |
Home
"The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store."
Kin Hubbard "I'm a real suzy Homemaker!" Suzy bogguss |
Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson." - Alan Cohen
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