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"Having someone help you doesn't mean u failed...it just means you're not in it alone."
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...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.
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"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page" - Mark Houlahan |
"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so." - Robert G. Ingersoll |
"There is only one way to happiness, and that is cease worrying about the things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus |
Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it.
Paulo Coelho |
so you want to be a writer?
by Charles Bukowski if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don't do it. if you're doing it for money or fame, don't do it. if you're doing it because you want women in your bed, don't do it. if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again, don't do it. if it's hard work just thinking about doing it, don't do it. if you're trying to write like somebody else, forget about it. if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else. if you first have to read it to your wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents or to anybody at all, you're not ready. don't be like so many writers, don't be like so many thousands of people who call themselves writers, don't be dull and boring and pretentious, don't be consumed with self- love. the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind. don't add to that. don't do it. unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was. |
"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it." - Abraham Lincoln We've all found ourselves traveling down the low road at one time or another. You know the road. It's the one filled with nitpicking and faultfinding. The road packed with sniping and backbiting. The road fraught with sadness and despair, crammed to the hilt with negative comments and spiteful remarks. It's a road where trashing your friends is an everyday occurrence. It's a road where besmirching your enemies is common practice. It's a road where regularly defaming people we hardly know is widely accepted. It's a pathetic, pitiful, pothole riddled road. |
"The high road is always respected and rewarded." Scott Hamilton How many times have you found yourself wandering that low road? You're out there passing judgment on people you know - and don't know. You're running down colleagues and co-workers. You're even denigrating friends and family; belittling, maligning and smearing virtually everyone in sight, dishing out criticism like it's going out of style. You don't want to be there, but you're there. You don't like what you're doing, but you're doing it nonetheless. And you're totally, completely, 100% miserable. Let's face it, trashing and tearing others down is no way to build a life. Or make yourself happy. Or bring one sliver of value to anyone on earth. Be honest, how do you feel when you're being critical of others? Does it make you feel better? Does it make your life happier or more fulfilling? Does it make you look better in the eyes of those around you? No it doesn't; not even close. |
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share our riches but to reveal to him his own." Benjamin Disraeli Hey, it's easy to find fault. It's easy to point out flaws. It's easy to criticize and critique the shortcomings of others. But easy or not, it's just plain wrong. And it will never get you anywhere close to realizing your dreams. You've got to get off - and stay off - of the low road. And don't go back. Instead of tearing others down, why not take the high road and look for ways to build people up? Instead of raising a ruckus with people you know, why don't you look for ways to make them feel better about themselves? Instead of fussing and fuming and getting all riled up arguing with others, why don't you look for the best in the people all around you? Take the high road. Tell them how much you admire them, how much you appreciate them. How much they mean to you. Even when others pass judgment on you, you've got to rise about it. Don't stoop to their level; don't join their club. Don't say two can play this game. Rather than join them on the low road and start hurling insults back and forth, I want you to take the high ground and look for a ways to lift them up. That's right; I want you to look for the best in your detractors, even when they're ripping you to shreds. Why? Because chances are pretty good they hate the low road as much as you do. They desperately want to feel better, do better and be better. They just need to discover the best within themselves. And you can help. |
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
~Victor Kiam |
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~ Ellen Parr
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"everything is a pullover if you don't unbutton it."
-Littleman |
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion" - William Inge
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Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
Herman Melville |
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
Janis Joplin |
Trust
"You closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too-even when you are in the dark. Even when you're falling."
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"How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood" -- somebody a long time ago
(in my head since hearing a 10 year old repeating it, now it's stuck and hope leaving it here will help it go away) |
about my accent...
I may talk slow, but I think fast.
(a coworker) |
Being imperfect is my best trait. Kuan Yin
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. - Buddha Confusion is when you argue with what is - Byron Katie Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is. Eckhart Tolle Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction. Wayne Dyer In every challenging situation life provides, there is an opportunity for learning and growth. -Brian Piergrossi |
When I die if you need to weep Cry for your brother or sister Walking the street beside you: And when you need me put your arms around anyone And give them what you need to give me. I want to leave you something - Something better than words or sounds. Look for me in the people I've known or loved And if you cannot give me away At least let me live in your eyes and not on your mind. You can love me most by letting hands touch hands; By letting bodies touch bodies; And by letting go of children that need to be free. Love doesn't die; people do. So when all that's left of me is love, Give me away. -Merritt Malloy http://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.c...ith-clouds.jpg |
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit |
"...as an aside, when in English class I remembered being taught Pronouns n stuff. I do not remember being taught to use them as a way to segregate folks from one another. I must have missed class that day." ~ DW ~ :daywalker: |
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche |
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
~~Richard M. Nixon |
WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may lead you to believe that ex-
loves are really dying for you to telephone them at two in the morning |
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” ~George Bernard Shaw
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"No one likes a watch dog, except the person he's guarding."
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)
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I hate the word wholesome.
Julie Andrews |
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
William Gibson |
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln |
"let it go -- the
smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love" E.E. Cummings |
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Sam Levenson |
If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
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Whether the love lasts a week, a year, or beyond, love is the one thing all our hearts desire.
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"The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst."
-Marge Kennedy |
"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, Letters to a Young Poet
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"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out." -- Mae West
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