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Promises are like babies…Fun to make but hell to deliver.
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The Summer~~Nizar Qabbani
In the summer
I stretch out on the shore And think of you Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me. Katniss~~ |
It does'nt matter if the glass is half empty or half full, there is clearly room for more wine.
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“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Money is to be respected. Never handle another persons money, without respect for how hard it was to earn it. -T Boone Pickens Jr
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself dishonest. - B Berkeley To him that watches, everything is revealed.- Italian proverb |
That's the thing about ephemera, isn't it?
Here then gone. Fleetingly of foot, afoot, Corner of the eye glimpsed, There then gone. Did you see her? Do you think you know her? A filamentary figment stealing your breath, Near then gone. Was she, were you ever really there? ~Fatale |
It Doesn't Matter To Me -Oriah Mountain Dreamer- (Native American Elder) It doesn't matter to me what you do for a living: I want to know what you ache for and if you dare of meeting your hearts' longing. It doesn't matter to me how old you are: I want to know if you would risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventures of being alive. It doesn't matter to me which planets are squaring with your moon: I want to know if you have touched the center of your sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain: -mine and your own- without moving to hide it, fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy: -mine and your own- if you can dance with wildness and ecstacy, fill the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful or to be realistic or to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't matter to me if the story you are telling me is true: I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself, if you can bear the causation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. I want to know if you can live with failure: -yours and mine- and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!" It doesn't matter to me where or what or with whom you have studied: I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. |
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.- Einstein
A kite only rises against the wind. - Hamilton Mable Patience has its limits. Taken too far and it's cowardice.- George Jackson |
One of the paradoxes of our time is that
we have more power at our disposal than ever before, and yet we seem more powerless than ever. Ralph W. Sockman (1953) |
The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.
Rabindranath Tagore |
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
-Ghandi- |
We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough. -Helen keller
Never never never never , give up. - Winston Churchill A single sunbeam drives away many shadows.- ST. Francis of Assisi |
“I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.”
- Anonymous “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” - John F. Kennedy “Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.” - Unknown |
Love is a force. . . . It is not a result;
it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it. Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
“Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien |
“Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game”
Will Durant |
Trouble comes to pass, not to stay. You can trust life to give you the courage that is required to do anything or face anything. Challenge comes to make you, not break you. ~ Iyanlan Vanzant
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You do not have to love what is going on in your life, but you must accept that it, whatever it is, is going on. As long as you do not accept reality, you are powerless to define the role you will play.
~Iyanlan Vanzant |
Reason and Passion BY Khalil Gibran And the priestess spoke again and said: "Speak to us of Reason and Passion." And he answered saying: Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements? Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or our rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even as you would two loved guests in your house. Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both. Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion." And since you are a breath In God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion. |
Faith sees God
Intellect does not |
The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handle.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~Dalai Lama(f) |
Procrastination is the thief of time. - Edward Young
Restleness and discontent are the first necessities of change. -Thomas Edison Never answer a question until it's asked . - Unknown |
The Surgery of the Sea
At the furthermost reach of the sea where Atlantis sinks under the wake of the waves, I have come to heal my life. I knit together like a broken arm. The salt fills the crevices of bone. The sea takes all the fragments of my lives & grinds them home. I wake up in a waterbed with you. The sea is singing & my skin sings against your skin. The waves are all around us & within. We sleep stuck to each other's salt. I am healing in your arms. I am learning to write without the loss of love. I am growing deeper lungs here by the sea. The waves are knives; they glitter & cut clean. This is the sea's surgery. This is the cutting & the healing both. This is where bright sunlight warms the bone, & fog erases us, then makes us whole. Erica Jong Katniss~~ (tonight, dreaming the sea) |
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not."
-Barry (Dinner for Schmucks) ....the only one. |
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If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves. ~Gabrielle Roth
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Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. ~Dalai Lama (f) |
Conceal a flaw and the world will imagine the worst.- Martial
There is hardly any grief that an hour of reading won't dissipate. Montesquieu The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.- Blaise Pascal |
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"Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost."
-Kaleel Jamison |
That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back.
If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy. ~ George Foreman |
South China Sea Eyes....by W. Jude Aher
young girl
with her south china sea eyes where an ocean wind sighs stands as she tries. in the silence between day and night between hope and dreaming, water is carved deep in where a poet grows in where a child to woman perceives. a young girl dares to paint her colors true to dance her words free. when only a poet believes a young girl bleeds her south china sea eyes open standing where only a poet dares to see. Katniss~~ |
Truth.
By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
Pema Chodron |
body of a woman ~ Pablo Neruda
Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs,
you look like a world, lying in surrender. my rough peasant's body digs in you and makes the son leap from the depth of the earth. I was alone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me, and night swamped me with its crushing invasion. To survive myself I forged you like a weapon, like an arrow in my bow, a stone in my sling. But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you. Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk. Oh the goblets of the breast! Oh the eyes of absence! Oh the roses of the pubis! Oh your voice, slow and sad! Body of my woman, I will persist in your grace. My thirst, my boundless desire, my shifting road! Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst flows and the weariness follows, and the infinite ache. |
Many a good friend will help you move. Truly good friends help you move the bodies.
Me~ |
THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE *-*-* W. B. Yeats *-*-* The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans. The nineteenth autumn has come upon me Since I first made my count; I saw, before I had well finished, All suddenly mount And scatter wheeling in great broken rings Upon their clamorous wings. I have looked upon those brilliant creatures, And now my heart is sore. All's changed since I, hearing at twilight, The first time on this shore, The bell-beat of their wings above my head, Trod with a lighter tread. Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air; Their hearts have not grown old; Passion or conquest, wander where they will, Attend upon them still. But now they drift on the still water, Mysterious, beautiful; Among what rushes will they build, By what lake's edge or pool Delight men's eyes when I awake some day To find they have flown away? |
Our hearts are drunk with a beauty that our eyes could never see.
G. Russell |
'freedom is what you do with what's been done to you' - unknown
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religous conviction.- Blaise Pascal
Well done is better than well said.- Ben Franklin A ship in a harbor is safe. But that is not what ships are built for.- John A Shedd |
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