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"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White |
From the heart of Mark Twain....You know....that guy they keep tryin' to censor....
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
~Mark Twain |
imperfect
"Your are as close to perfect as I've ever seen, your only flaw is that you can't accept mine."
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Friends and family are a haven in what can sometimes seem a heartless world.
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Women are made to be loved not understood.
:moonstars: Oscar Wilde |
PRIDE MONTH
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
~James Baldwin |
"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment." - Jim Rohn |
"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace." -George Bernard Shaw |
"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself." - Walter Anderson |
“Our Similarities bring us to a common ground; Our Differences allow us to be fascinated by each other” ~ Tom Robbins
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"Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us." Cesar Millan
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"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world" ~ Josephine Billings (f) |
“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes" ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (f) |
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix :hippie: |
edward estlin cummings
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility: whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands. |
Last Night...
Last night, your long-lost memory came back to me as though Spring stealthily should come to a forsaken wilderness A gentle breeze its fragrance over burning deserts blow Or, all at once be soothed somehow the sick soul’s distress. ~Faiz Ahmed Faiz |
"Uh, I got your rug all wet."
-Eric to Sookie (True Blood) |
In this world you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.
-Jimmy Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd in HARVEY- |
"MAKE THEM ALLLLLL WISH THEY HAD A SECOND WITH YOU!!!"
This came from someone who is fast becoming a dear friend. It totally made me smile. :) |
"It is better to debate a question without setting it than to settle a question without debating it" - Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)
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"The purpose of life is simply to live a life of purpose. With no reason to get up in the morning life can start to really get you down. Watch out retirees! Make sure you retire to something instead of from something." - Ricky K. |
"My life experience is that I am learning to become more of myself rather than comparing myself with other people. Other people expect me to be like them, but I don't want to be like them, I just want to be more of myself and to accept myself for who I am." - Sharon N. |
“Try to expect nothing, but be open for anything. Don’t look for happiness, but don’t settle for anything less.” — Unknown |
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers." ~ Jose Narosky |
"Who is not broken in some way or another? Wounded people need healing, not additional bruises....The healing begins when I encounter someone who simply accepts me, listens to my story, and is willing to accompany me in the life I find myself in. Often it is a life without any joy or satisfaction, but it is a life that I have been entrapped in." ~Virgilio Elizondo in Virgilio Elizondo: Spiritual Writings, edited by Timothy Matovina (Orbis) |
I guess I should throw away my map..... :)
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
~Lao Tzu |
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
~Seneca |
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ~Michel de Montaigne
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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~Aristotle
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Having a grievance or resentment is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy. - Nelson Mandela
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"I don't understand And I look up and around me As if my surroundings would tell me the answers The wind whisper it in my ear The stars twinkle it in morse code I catch myself Silly to think I could find any answers Any reasons for what happens in this life I don't understand " - Anonymous |
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. " - Unknown |
”Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?" --Mary Manin Morrissey |
Our humanity is not an attribute that we have received once and forever with our conception - it is a potentiality which we discover within us and progressively develop or destroy through our confrontation with the different experiences of suffering that will meet us through our life.
(Xavier Le Pichon, Geophysicist) |
JFK Quotes
"A man may die, nations may rise & fall, but an idea lives on." "The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission." "Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others." |
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
~ Mae Jemison |
Go with the version of your story that feels best to you when you tell it. Make yourself happy and please yourself. Let everyone off the hook from having to please you or from having to change in order for you to be happy. Don’t blame, complain, explain, ...or apologize. Appreciate what shows up in your life, acknowledging that you called it to you. Let go of perceived offenses quickly. Don’t harbor negative thoughts or feelings. Don’t get trapped in the mental tyranny of stuff you can’t do anything about. Pull back and generalize more when the details become too much for you. Find something to appreciate, praise, celebrate and get excited about. Identify your deal breakers, dealmakers, and personal requirements. Assess your strengths and weaknesses, and then go with your strengths. Be more concerned with being real than being good. If it’s not working for you, don’t export it. Know that the power of your Presence speaks volumes. Have faith that things will get done even if you don’t do it. Invoke joy and freedom by acknowledging your personal power. When your inner being decides to move on, go with her. --Ajike Kendrick
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Happy Pride Month!
We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.
-Jimmy Carter |
One of my dear friends who has not been in the bestest mood lately just posted this on fb and I had to steal it...
"I was going to wear my happy pants today, but they're in the laundry...hmm" I can totally see her finishing this sentence up with "sucks for you"...LOL |
"You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself." - William J. H. Boetcker |
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