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"Joy is not in things, it is in us." ~ Richard Wagner
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~Ralph W. Sockman |
"My feet energy is all mixed up with food energy", said my 5yr-old charge today, as part of an explanation of the different kinds of running he can do. Smart kid.
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"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde |
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault
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The best antique is an old friend.
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Who has words at the right moment?
Charlotte Bronte |
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life” - Aphra Behn |
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be” - Marcel Pagnol |
“Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” - Stacey Charter |
There is one place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy,~ her heart.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. -Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel Prize in literature (1861-1941)
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Buddha said on his deathbed:
Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in your books, nor [simply] because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher...Be lamps unto yourselves. The part of this most useful to me is not accepting something just because it supports what I already believe. I notice that when I hear something in the news about a person, an issue, a crime, it is so easy both to believe and remember that particular piece of info as true, rather than anything that does not support my current position. So I try not to. |
Pride Month
It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
~Francis Maude |
"There are no absolutes."
"So is that an absolute.?" --some irritating logicians, I'd say |
nothing
I copied this from a book I just read. I thought it was pretty awesome.
" Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, That, we still are. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effect. Without the trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same that it ever was. There is absolute unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you. For an interval. Somewhere. Very Near. Just around the corner. All is well. " |
"Can't even shout, can't even cry, The Gentleman are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors, they need to take seven and they might take yours. Can't call mom, can't say the word, you're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard."
~Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Season 4 Episode 10 "Hush") |
If you keep projecting your past onto your future, you will be living the same day over and over.
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"Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own loveless ness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it." - D.H. Lawrence |
"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence." - David Byrne |
"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 |
If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good!
- Dr. Seuss |
Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie, novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1860-1937)
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" I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ" Ghandi
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Women are Angels. And when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly - on a broomstick. We're flexible like that.
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I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
~Robert McCloskey |
I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
~Virginia Satir |
You do not have to find what is true, when the false is discarded truth is there. It always was. Just keep observing the fact and the change will come automatically and will be lasting.
~Barry Long |
"Conventionality is not morality.
Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last." -Charlotte Bronte |
it's been said before
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
-- Andrew A. Rooney |
"Rejection is the Universe's Protection" ~ A wise woman
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“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.” - Washington Irving |
“Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.” - Alice Hoffman |
“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” - Anthony Robbins |
"Honesty is always the best policy. You always want to take accountability."(f)
Lisa Mininni |
Okay, who all thought for a second there that Liza Minelli said that?
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"I'll guarantee that two seconds after you're dead, you no longer give a shit." -- my father
when i go, he's the first one i'm gonna look up in the "directory of those who live beyond the beyond" just hope my glasses won't melt and sear my eyes closed |
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
James Joyce |
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
~Anais Nin |
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.
~Washington Irving |
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