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"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer." ~Rainer Maria Rilke |
"It is good to feel lost... because it proves you have a navigational sense of where "Home" is. You know that a place that feels like being found exists. And maybe your current location isn't that place but, Hallelujah, that unsettled, uneasy feeling of lost-ness just brought you closer to it." ~Erika Harris |
"It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts." ~K.T. Jong |
“For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.” Molly Haskell. |
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Kurt Cobain
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work
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"Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.":hangloose:
Anthony Robbins |
Be near me now,
My tormenter, my love, be near me— At this hour when night comes down, When, having drunk from the gash of sunset, darkness comes With the balm of musk in its hands, its diamond lancets, When it comes with cries of lamentation, with laughter with songs; Its blue-gray anklets of pain clinking with every step. At this hour when hearts, deep in their hiding places, Have begun to hope once more, when they start their vigil For hands still enfolded in sleeves; When wine being poured makes the sound of inconsolable children who, though you try with all your heart, cannot be soothed. When whatever you want to do cannot be done, When nothing is of any use; —At this hour when night comes down, When night comes, dragging its long face, dressed in mourning, Be with me, My tormenter, my love, be near me. ~ Faiz Ahmed Faiz |
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
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"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness." ~Robertson Davies |
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." ~Margaret Young |
"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne |
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
~ Albus Dumbledore |
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. Doug Larson |
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain, and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do”
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Hollister Rand
"Life is like skateboarding. You will fall alot before mastering the tricks." "Live at the speed of life. Laugh at the speed of sound." "Why" is a short question that takes an eternity to answer." "Sometimes a butterfly is just a kiss from heaven." "The building blocks of heaven are love, hope, and joy." |
Forgiveness is not possible until compassion is born in your heart -Thich Nhat Hanh
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"Sometimes you wake up, sometimes the fall kills you, and sometimes when you fall you fly." Neil Gaiman
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"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths no one else will speak." Neil Gaiman
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a few of my fave quotes from the brilliant Dorothy Allison
"Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns."
"I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them." "I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life.... Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted." "The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal." "Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form." |
Your Catfish Friend by Richard Brautigan If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, "It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me," I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, "I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them." |
"Each of us has a special word that no one will ever understand. Even if we say the word, simply the word, people will be clueless. it will take a thousand more words to explain and even then it will only be a ghost of a meaning. So keep your word close and smile because it is your own."
-our very own wolfbittenpoet/ The Typewriter Boy |
As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.
~Sri Guru Granth Sahib |
Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.
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Without the karma of good deeds, they are only destroying themselves.
~Sri Guru Granth Sahib |
“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.” ~ Tom Robbins
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What a superbly accurate quote from one of our very own. To add to wolfbitten's idea - our words, although they are but symbols for our thoughts and feelings, shape who we are, and who we are not. They stand the test of time. They can pull us deeply toward love and to extreme levels of hatred. Even as I write these words, I wonder if they - like chocolate - will taste the same way to you, as they do to me.
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." - Marcus Aurelius |
"As we move through life, the force of fate creates events that we only appreciate when we reflect on our existence." - Ronald Harmon |
"I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses ... I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known." – Euripides |
When one must, one can. ~ Charlotte Whitton
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If it isn't possible to happen, it will happen to you....MY MOM
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Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~author unknown~
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"Dreams are illustrations - from the book your soul is writing about you," ~ Marsha Norman |
something to do....
each day i wonder how many things that i'm dead wrong about.
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tea
the first cup kisses away my thirst
and my loneliness is quelled by the second the third cup gives insight worthy of ancient scrolls and the fourth exiles my troubles my body becomes lighter with the fifth and the sixth sends word from the Immortals but the seventh, o the seventh cup, if i drink you, a wind will hurry my wings toward the Sacred Island (Lu Tong, 798-835 CE) |
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