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food for thought
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“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.” ― Marilyn Monroe |
Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved.
- Medieval German saying |
Happy Valentine everyone,
Tonight will be just like last year, Romantic meal for one, wine for 4. |
Together, we can create a community where [all are] treated with dignity, regardless of their sex or skin color or orientation, regardless of whether their family came here on a slave ship or the Mayflower four hundred years ago or through Ellis Island at the turn of the century or from Central America last year. ~Linda Chavez-Thompson |
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939
Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe I've fallen in love many times... always with you. ~Author Unknown |
Vengeance is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits. EMK
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The word which carries power is the one which has conviction back of it.
—Ernest Holmes |
Happy Valentine's Day!
"The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity." ~ Helen Hayes
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." ~ Saint-Exupery "Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds." ~ Shakespeare "You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly." ~ Sam Keen "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." ~ Franklin P. Jones "Where there is love there is life." ~ Gandhi |
Single, taken, in a relationship; those are just terms. Your actions determine your status.
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nothing false and possible is love... (XXXIV)
by e.e. cummings nothing false and possible is love (who's imagined,therefore is limitless) love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if,love is to yes must's a schoolroom in the month of may: life's the deathboard where all now turns when (love's a universe beyond obey or command,reality or un-) proudly depths above why's first because (faith's last doubt and humbly heights below) kneeling,we-true lovers-pray that us will ourselves continue to outgrow all whose mosts if you have known and i've only we our least begin to guess |
No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it. - Konosuke Matsushita |
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"Unless someone like you cares an awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." -The Lorax
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An excerpt from: The Fickle One by Pablo Neruda
"But to you, without my moving, Without seeing you, distant you, Go my blood and my kisses, My dark one and my fair one, My broad one and my slender one, My ugly one, my beauty, Made of all the gold And of all the silver, Made of all the wheat And of all the earth, Made of all the water Of sea waves, Made for my arms Made for my kisses, Made for my soul. " |
"Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense." ~Robert Frost
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. ~Josh Billings
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan, 1896 If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. ~Latin Proverb . |
Only those who will risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Elliot
"Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by the other person, it isn't worth having." |
"I have an intense desire to return to the womb___Anybody's!
Woody Allen...:waitinggirl: |
When the restless activity of your mind slows down, when your thoughts stop rushing like waves on a windy day, then you will start getting glimpses of the sweet taste of inner peace. – Remez Sasson |
As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness. – Dalai Lama |
Unhappy
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“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.” ― Marilyn Monroe |
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. ~ Eric Hoffer |
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you or help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
(Plato) |
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
(Plato) |
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. ~Bernard Baruch
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. ~Albert Einstein If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve. ~David Sedaris |
If Wishes Were Fishes, No-one Would Go Hungry....
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Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places. Unknown
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mind blowing quote of the day
“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
― Marilyn Monroe |
“Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.” ― Jenny Oconnell |
everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Morihei Ueshiba |
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― Donna Schoenrock
“Some people won't be happy until they've pushed you to the ground. What you have to do is have the courage to stand your ground and not give them the time of day. Hold on to your power and never give it away.” |
Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow - it is not a permanent rest stop. ~Dodinsky
If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather |
"Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-pulling, but guiding, instructive, inspirational - a south wind and not an east wind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice To Forgive is the Highest most Beautiful form of Love. Forgive all who have offended you. Not for them. But for Yourself. Indian magazine We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live out lives with authenticity Barbara de Angelis |
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." ~ Albert Einstein
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment. Felix Adler
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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
Lilly Tomlin :byebye: |
“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching |
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