Robinson Jeffers - "Natural Music"
 

The old voice of the ocean, the bird-chatter of little rivers,
(Winter has given them gold for silver
To stain their water and bladed green for brown to line their banks)
From different throats intone one language.
So I believe if we were strong enough to listen without
Divisions of desire and terror
To the storm of the sick nations, the rage of the hunger smitten cities,
Those voices also would be found
Clean as a child's; or like some girl's breathing who dances alone
By the ocean-shore, dreaming of lovers.

there is no love that lasts forever. everything ends. all relationships should begin with the understanding that love will eventually be lost for some reason. death, at least, comes to us all. the memory of love might last forever but love itself always comes and goes. losing love is the only way we seem to learn to comprehend its worth.


pema chodron

"Some cause happiness where ever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- Michel de Montaigne

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that is gone.
- William Shakespeare

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Emerson

(probably already done here but if so I missed it...)


Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.

Let him that would move the world , first move himself. - Socrates


Ingratitude is the daughter of every vice. - French Proverb


Fortune sides with he who dares.- Virgil

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
 

Simone de Beauvoir was a writer on feminism and existentialism. She also wrote novels. Her book "The Second Sex" is a feminist classic. It is based on the idea that, while men and women may have different tendencies, each person is unique, and it is culture which has enforced a uniform set of expectations of what is "feminine," as contrasted to what is "human" which is equated with what is male. Beauvoir argued that women can free themselves, through individual decisions and collective action.

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• This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

• Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

• Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

• When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

• All oppression creates a state of war.

• However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

R.I.P Our Dear Lizzie 8-25-2012 R.I.P Sweet Emma 8-27-2012
 

Okay, we didn't work, and all
memories to tell you the truth aren't good.
But sometimes there were good times.
Love was good. I loved your crooked sleep
beside me and never dreamed afraid.

There should be stars for great wars
like ours.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
- Norman Mailer

I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.
― Ashly Lorenzana

People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
- Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

For you
 

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
― Margaret Atwood

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
― Jeffrey McDaniel

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
― Emily Brontë

I want hym to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb hym and walk around for the rest of my days with hym encased in my skin.

I want.
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

Even when I was young I suspected that much might be done in a better way.- Henry Ford Sr.

Trust instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness consists of loving people more than they deserve.- Joseph Joubert

MAKE THIS A POSITIVE DAY

"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words
Keep your words positive because you words become your behavior
Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny."

~Gandhi (f)

"Whatever happens to you, don’t fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can’t see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path. Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want."

Shams Tabrizi

If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.- Winston Churchill

Laziness is often mistaken for patience. - French proverb


A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‎"Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future."

- Paulo Coelho, is a Brazilian lyricist, novelist, and author of 'The Alchemist'

'people who live in glass houses shouldnt throw stones or skimp on the curtains' - mae west

Love is a river, jump into it. ~ Rumi

Life consists of what a person is thinking about all day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The opinion of the majority is not the final proof of what is right. - Schiller


Malice must go under the disguise of plainess, or else it is exposed.- Marquess of Halifax

“The people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it the most.” - peaceful warrior

A lot of folks confuse bad management with destiny. - Kin Hubbard

A sick mind can not endure any harshness. - Latin Proverb

Misfortune does not always come to injure. Italian Proverb

" No one can make you feel inferior without your permission." --Eleanor Roosevelt

The trouble with going with the flow is, you might wind up getting sucked down the drain. - Unknown

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always. -Mahatma Gandhi


I like a man who grins when he fights. -Winston Churchill

Cherish what you have rather than what you don't.

-mak ray

Learning to Float....by April Linder
 

Learning to Float

Relax. It's like love. Keep your lips
moist and parted, let your upturned hands
unfold like water lilies, palms exposed.

Breathe deeply, slowly. Forget chlorine
and how the cement bottom was stained
blue so the water looks clear

and Caribbean. Ignore the drowned mosquitoes,
the twigs that gather in the net
of your hair. The sun is your ticket,

your narcotic, blessing your chin,
the floating islands of your knees.
Shut your eyes and give yourself

to the pulsating starfish, purple and red,
that flicker on your inner lids.
Hallucination is part of the process,

like amnesia. Forget how you learned
to swim, forget being told
Don't panic. Don't worry. Let go

of my neck. It's only water. Don't think
unless you're picturing Chagall,
his watercolors of doves and rooftops,

lovers weightless as tissue,
gravity banished, the dissolving voices
of violins and panpipes. The man's hand

circles the woman's wrist so loosely,
what moors her permits her to float,
and she rises past the water's skin,

above verandas and the tossing heads
of willows. Her one link to earth,
his light—almost reluctant—touch, is a rope

unfurling, slipping her past the horizon,
into the cloud-stirring current. This far up,
what can she do but trust he won't let go?


Katniss~~

When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others.

When the eye is not set on one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit.

But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.

Takuan Soto

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha

I have never been in a situation where having money, made it any worse. -Unknown

A bustling mother makes a slothful daughter.- Latin proverb


The right to speak your mind, doesn't automatically include the right to be taken seriously. Hubert Humphreys

Even the devil himself does not know where women sharpen their knives.

~Latvian Proverb

It wasn't good, really, the way it went,
but it was right.
When an end must begin,
I let it.

The smell, the sight, the rasp of it,
I had to relinquish my grasp on it,
The tempestuous tumult portending torpor,

A soul laid fallow
in order to bloom again.

~Fatale

Crashed on my shores,
shell cracking, she'll shock.
Briny bitch licking salty wounds,
won't take a grain but will litter a mile.

I shall wear the husk of your rattle
at my throat,
Keep the fleshed fangs still.

Gouging your way out to the in,
I am not right or empty.

Suttee on an icy pyre,
muslin lust quickening.
Widowed eventuality anneals.

Sometimes I won't,
sometimes I never will.
Venial vanity,
mortality in vein,
my pulses slam on the altar of your imagined.

Deserted crossroad bearing memories of the traveled,
I add mine to the path.

~Fatale

That flavor you teased you were,
you're not.
Those flecks are not vanilla bean.

Thank God they're not.

That gentleness you claimed you had,
you don't.
Those passions aren't kind.

Thank God they're not.

The brilliance you try to deny,
you can't.
Such acumen will always shine.

Thank God you do.

Fatale

Julie Parker quotes
 

sometimes when people are at their lowest, pain makes them do crazy things
sometimes when people do crazy things, they push us away
sometimes when people push us away, they need our love even more
sometimes when people need our love even more, they give us an opportunity to be the best we can be
so go ahead and push, i can take it
you ain't seen anything as strong as me
i'm a girl

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limbo - being pushed away by one hand while being held onto with the other

bell hooks
 

shakespeare #116