I am done with my graceless heart
So tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart
Cause I like to keep my issues drawn
It's always darkest before the dawn.

--Florence and the Machine

When the mind is weak, the whole body suffers. Unknown


Its beautiful when two strangers become best friends, but sad when two best friends become strangers. -Unknown


The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality. -Dante

Never grow a wishbone daughter, where your backbone ought to be.....Clementine Pappleford

I’ve learned that things change... people change... and it doesn’t mean you forget the past or try to cover it up... It simply means that you move on and treasure the memories... Letting go doesn’t mean giving up… it means accepting that some things weren’t meant to be...

The reason most don't recognize the miracles that are performed on their behalf, is because there's just so many of them ~Mike Dooley


I will always find a way...and a way will always find me.


What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset...~Blackfoot

"We're always in temporary mode, but that doesn't mean we can't dream and prepare for our future so that when we arrive at that temporary moment it's that much easier."
~Stoney :hamactor:

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over,
pinning you underneath.
And at night, the ice weasels come.

~Matt Groening

And yet, another good reason not to go anywhere cold on purpose. Haha

“Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.”

~ Haruki Murakami

Yes, darling..we all know how you feel about the cold, don't we?....:runforhills:....*chuckle*

“Your actions and words are always having an impact on another person, especially children.” Barry Manilow

Three minutes after you have gone. No, I can't restrain it.
I tell you what you already know - I love you.
It is this I destroyed over and over again. At Dijon I wrote you long passionate letters - if you had remained in Switzerland I would have sent them - but how could I send them to Louveciennes? Anais, I can't say much now - I am in a fever. I could scarcely talk to you because I was continually on the point of getting up and throwing my arms around you.

(A love letter from author Henry Miller to poet Anais Nin on March 4, 1932)

for someone who carries the light
 

“He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.”
~John Milton


“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


My advice to my absolutely radiant friend:

“If you look deep within, you will find a brilliant light. To many, far too many, squint and turn away from the shine. Let your eyes adjust, and bathe in the radiance.”
~Unknown

"Be careful of the words you say,
Keep them short and sweet.
You never know, from day to day,
Which ones you'll have to eat."
- Anonymous

Syr
 

"In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life."

There is no doubt that a single creative thought has the power to change the world. -Unknown


You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. -Steve Prefontaine


Winners are winners because they do what losers don't want to do. -Unknown

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Jane Austen

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” –Life’s Little Instruction Book

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

oh yea!
 

BE DARING, BE DIFFERENT, BE IMPRACTICAL,
BE ANYTHING THAT WILL ASSERT INTEGRITY OF PURPOSE AND IMAGINATIVE VISION
AGAINST THE PLAY-IT-SAFERS, THE CREATURES OF THE COMMONPLACE, THE SLAVES OF THE ORDINARY.

-CECIL BEATON

Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes... Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow...

What is allowed us is disagreeable.
What is denied causes us intense desire.

~Ovid

"When you chose to be a competitor, you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are. Competition trains you to accept risks and endure setbacks. By embracing it, you can enhance your life. But it will also pull you through those painful, frightening every-day battles that we all have to face at one time or another. Ask yourself, "Are you a competitor?"

-- Pat Summitt

The power to change our destinies lie within ourselves.-Unknown

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -John Stuart Mill


The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation. -Albert Einstein

Saw this on a picture message on a friend's facebook...

"DO NOT CROSS THIS PASTURE: Unless you can do it in 9 seconds, because the bull can do it in 10!" :pointing:

“All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist…It’s just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once that moment is gone it is gone forever.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

You are only truely in control of your life when you accept that you are not.

This was on a magnet...
"To fear is human. To arr is pirate" :pirate-steer:

Far better is it to dare mighty things and win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank among those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt


Often people fall short, not because they have tried and failed, but because the fear of failure kept them from trying at all . - Unknown


Knowledge often masters those who cannot master it.-The Clever librarian

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” -Marilyn Monroe

"Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places." -unknown

If I wait to be
perfect
before I love myself
I will always be
unsatisfied
and ungrateful

if I wait until
all the flaws, chips,
and cracks disappear
I will be the cup
that stands on the shelf
and is never used.

Aynsley Bubbico