The indomitable Mother Jones....
 

Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet"-
"Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
"Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody."

Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread."
— Pablo Neruda

"Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life"--Pablo Neruda

~Jesse Jackson
 

I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone
 

I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone

by Rainer Maria Rilke
translated by Annemarie S. Kidder

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone
enough
to truly consecrate the hour.
I am much too small in this world, yet not small
enough
to be to you just object and thing,
dark and smart.
I want my free will and want it accompanying
the path which leads to action;
and want during times that beg questions,
where something is up,
to be among those in the know,
or else be alone.

I want to mirror your image to its fullest perfection,
never be blind or too old
to uphold your weighty wavering reflection.
I want to unfold.
Nowhere I wish to stay crooked, bent;
for there I would be dishonest, untrue.
I want my conscience to be
true before you;
want to describe myself like a picture I observed
for a long time, one close up,
like a new word I learned and embraced,
like the everday jug,
like my mother's face,
like a ship that carried me along
through the deadliest storm.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk ~ Joyce Brothers

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all ~ Ovid

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness ~ Sarah McLachlan

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully ~ Jeanette Winterson

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead ~ Bertrand Russell

"It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black."

-Paul Newman

It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.

Dennis Leary
 

Gary Larson | The Far Side
 

http://ubuntuforums.org/picture.php?...pictureid=1392


I'm a huge fan of Gary Larson Cartoons!
I wish I could find my favorite of his online, but this is one of my top favorites!

Someday, you will find one who will watch every sunrise with you until the sunset of your life.