No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.


Temple Grandin

Life is the train, not the train station. Paulo Coelho

"Never forget where you were. Never forget the journey to get where you are."

We spend a lot of time trying to control other people when we should just be controlling ourselves. Joyce Meyer

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~ Robert C. Gallagher

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. ~ Amy Tan

Behavior is a mirror in which everyone displays his own image.

This family is my special field,
In their soil my love is sealed,
So with gentle hands this earth I groom,
And where I step the flowers bloom.

For you Mom <3

"Water for Elephants" (2007)
 

I'm half-way into the book (ch. 15) but the beginning of the book is too precious. Here's how this story begins in chapter 1:

I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.

When you're five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three, you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen. It's a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm -- you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you're not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

Just a few lines before the first chapter opens, Jacob prefaces his story about knowing the importance of keeping a confidence and says that in "seventy years, I've never told a blessed soul."

This story touches my heart...
I've read it like 3 other times already.

" Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness- both the ones you have received and the ones you have given- you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter" Dawna Markova

If you're talking behind my back, you're in a good position to kiss my ass!

-as seen on a friend's FB

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller

"Until you learn from it, you will not be released of it."

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~ Wallace Stevens

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Having a smoking section in a restaurant is a little like having a peeing section in a pool.

love
 

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.-
Henry David Thoreau

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. ~ Alice Walker

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. ~Marv Levy

I was just thinking about this. What makes us think we are superior than anyone or anything else or entitled to more rights or freedom? It seems like it's really all about control, power and dominance. We use all these games and tactics to maintain or aggrandize our power and control and call it entitlement.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

e. e. cummings

The past is history, the future is a mystery but today is a gift, thats why its called the present. Kung Fu Panda

To One Unknown
BY HELEN DUDLEY

I have seen the proudest stars
That wander on through space,
Even the sun and moon,
But not your face.

I have heard the violin,
The winds and waves rejoice
in endless minstrelsy,
Yet not your voice.

I have touched the trillium,
Pale flower of the land,
Coral, anemone,
And not your hand.

I have kissed the shining feet
Of Twilight lover-wise,
Opened the gates of Dawn—
Oh not your eyes!

I have dreamed unwonted things,
Visions that witches brew,
Spoken with images,
Never with you.

“You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you." ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

:sparklyheart:

Just go out there and do what you have to do.
Martina Navratilova

"Keep your filthy paws off my silky drawers!" -Grease

"We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love."
 -Mother Teresa

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ~Alfred North Whitehead

"Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood is ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence ... What are the fruits of silence? They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character."

~Ohiyesa, Santee Sioux~