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"Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself, but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you." - Stewart E. White |
"Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are." - Thomas a Kempis |
" I had reached that zone of pain where riding was all there was; like all I had ever done was ride,all I would ever do is ride,and everything would be all right, if I just KEEP PEDALING" Anonymous
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Nemo me impune lacessit ! < --- No one provokes me with impunity !
"can someone help carry me over the next public house, I seem to have lost me legs at this one" MacDougal |
"All we are, basically, are monkeys with car keys." ~ Grandma Woody, "Northern Exposure"
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“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.” Wayne Dyer
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In my Inbox this morning
Written by a dear friend, for me, in response to one I sent her (my most recent 9 Words post):
in the evening cloud shadowed meadow of the brook whose source is unknown a woman dressed in tattered thread-web flowing rags stood swaying with the spires of grasses most of the passers-by on the road above ... the one that leads to the city … saw a beggar and a fool but the moon, the brook and i (i, whose heart has been broken by the kiss of God) beheld a solitary, a woman of the coven of the wind a woman who, as is known by the wanderers of the deserts, is a darvish, a madjub, a queen in beggars rags, a soul gifted with the banishment of those who are by birth forbidden to walk the road from town to town and must, therefore, live in the meadows of the moon where there is no path to define her way no sign to distract her view and only the nourishment of the brook whose source and destiny is unknowable |
In memory of PFC Christopher B. Fishbeck, killed yesterday in Iraq
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! ~Thomas ~William Parsons |
"What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be"
Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale) |
"We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups."
Margaret Atwood |
"I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone - and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?"
Margaret Atwood |
"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny."
- Anonymous |
"I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think or speak or write with moderation. I am in earnest-- I will not equivocate-- I will not excuse-- I will not retreat a single inch-- AND I WILL BE HEARD!" -William Lloyd Garrison
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi |
“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.” :floatbee:
Mary Kay Ash |
The opening line from one of my favorite films, Off the Map:
"The summer my father was depressed, the face of our lord Jesus Christ appeared on a tortilla at the Taos Junction Cafe." |
Madeleine L'Engle
"We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes."
also: "When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable." |
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew." - Saint Francis de Sales |
"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions." - William James |
"Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined." - Henry David Thoreau |
Happy Pride
I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.
~Paul Newman |
I’m cle’a[ni.ng m'y' ke]yb36oa;rd.
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Never point a finger where you've never lent a hand
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"Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul." ~ Unknown
~Theo~ :bouquet: |
"The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees and the earth. Our bodily parts function as a cooperative. When we realize the world is an interdependent cooperative enterprise, that human beings are all mutual friends in the process of old age, suffering and death - then we can build a noble, healthy environment. If our lives are not based on this truth, then we will all perish." -Buddhadasa
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. -Fyodor Dostoevsky, novelist (1821-1881)
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"Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way." ~Edna Ferber |
"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it." ~John Newton |
"Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear. Bring the rain, clear the pane of clutter." ~Jeb Dickerson |
June is Pride Month!
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A laugh is a smile that bursts.
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There are two ways to rule a women and nobody knows them.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
~André Gide |
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. -William C. Dement, professor of psychiatry (b. 1928)
It seriously tickles me that his name is Dement as in dementia. :) |
"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears." --Barbara Johnson
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-the roles we play in each others lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us___________
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It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.
~African proverb |
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
~Robert Brault |
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
~ Paulo Coelho ~ |
"I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted."-Jack Kerouac
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