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"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn
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Life should be giddy!
~SLL |
Words of wisdom from a friend's facebook status today...
If it isn't beautiful, joyful or useful...get it out of your life! |
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
~Roy Disney |
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep...for both are infinite." ~William Shakespeare |
I sit and listen while the sky beckons to me from the window, flirting, showing off its clear blue shirt in the sun.
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"Life is waiting for you to happen"
~ Marianne Williamson |
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Mark Twain |
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~Eric Hoffer
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It doesn’t matter what they will make of you
or your days: they will be wrong, they will miss the wrong woman, miss the wrong man, all the stories they tell will be tales of their own invention. Your story was this: you were happy, then you were sad, you slept, you awakened. Sometimes you ate roasted chestnuts, sometimes persimmons. --Jane Hirshfield |
...perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. Rainer Maria Rilke |
For the pessimist....how boring.....
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
~Janeane Garofalo |
Love is when the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. When there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald - |
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne |
Seen on a bumper sticker: I believe in good men, flying dragons, and other fairytale creatures.
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Living life in terms of your vision and working toward your goals must be done in the context of today's activities. Do not focus too heavily on the results of your efforts. Do not live for the future attainment of your goal. Live your life through the lens of your vision and what can be done in the present moment. Living your vision is not about reaching your goals. It is about living and working toward them. It is not about producing results but about living your life in a more meaningful and personally rewarding way.
Ari Kiev |
I wish there were a book I could read each day to tell me exactly what to do to live consciously from my heart and soul. But part of the mystery and magic, part of the reason I'm here, is to try to stumble through and hear what the soul has to say about what it needs at each moment--whether it is to work through an emotional block, discover what the next lesson is, meet the next soul mate (my children are soul mates; my best friends are soul mates), or finish my business with the one I'm with now. Ultimately, for most of us, the journey comes down to the same issue: learning to love freely. First ourselves, then other people.
Melody Beattie |
A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997 |
HA!
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
~Andy Rooney |
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
~William Shakespeare, Othello |
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. - Victor Hugo
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
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"Our lives teach us who we are,"
~Salman Rushdie |
words of wisdom from Facebook today...
what if this is it
right here right now your defining moment what if every event, heartache, and mistake was perfectly planned to lead you into the situation you presently find yourself in what if mystic voices whispered answers to you while you sleep and people are carefully thrown in your path all for the evolution of your greatest good whether you like them or not what if it did not matter what you did or said or felt in the past what if it was not an accurate prediction of what your future will look like what if you were not the only one feeling this way tired and lost joyful and free all at the same time what if others were also thirsty for the same soul balm you were craving what if you could meet them simply by following your own truth what if the reason you don’t fit it feel outside the box outside the norm is because you were not built to fit but to create your own molds and make your own set of rules what if they were wrong the mean voices that live in your head that say things like “no you can’t” and “that is not possible” and “what a stupid idea” what if those voices do not belong to you but some hurt angry child you never met that needs love and care what if your faults were also your assets disguised as flaws what if nothing was random not even a spilled cup of coffee or a broken heel on the way to work what if there is no one left to impress what if there is nothing wrong with you and nothing wrong with them what if it was all striped away your comforts distractions addictions and praise so you could finally meet the raw, naked version of yourself who is much stronger and bad ass than you expected what if this helps you see what you are really made of and you realize that is it not only more than enough but that you yes you dear soul are nothing short of extraordinary BY MCCABE RUSSELL |
Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, that processes of co-ordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the co-ordination is the measure of the disintegration which follows. There is no mob like a group of well-drilled soldiers when they have thrown off their discipline. And there is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. There is no hater like one who has greatly loved. -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)
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He has achieved success who has lived well laughed often and loved much. Bessie A. Stanley
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What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake - |
“I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packed more sex than two naked bodies in bed.”
-Bette Davis |
"your name here"
With pithy public-service announcements about the transitory nature of existence, I remind myself regularly not to get too comfortable here. But it's the kind of advertising that's immediately forgotten as I settle into my comfortable home. In the morning, I take a shower - plenty of hot water - and slip into one of several familiar identities, a few of them the worse for wear but nothing a little accessorizing won't fix. They all answer to the name "Sy." They all recognize Sy's aging face in the mirror. They're all unable to accept that at any moment all of this will end. |
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. . .
~ Carolyn Kenmore |
Self-worth comes from one thing - - thinking that you are worthy. - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer - |
Repose.
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Unknown...
Your Attitude + Your Choice = Your Life - Unknown - |
"For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.
"At last it dawned on Me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So, treasure every moment you have and remember: time waits for no one. Happiness is a journey, not a destination." ~ Souza |
both from the book Exley
a tricky bit of business, this believing in someone else. so tricky that we would never do it, if we did not want someone, someday to believe in us, too. because when you say you miss someone, you mean you miss the way you were before you started missing someone. |
What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. - Edgar Z. Friedenberg
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- A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another Candle - - Unknown - |
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other .Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katherine Hepburn |
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