"Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life"― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
- Anthony Robbins

“There is no greater force for change than people inspired to live a better life.” ― Steve Maraboli

“Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it's something you do.” ― Steve Maraboli

“Do you know how there are moments when the world seems to stop and you can feel your heart soaring, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?”― Jodi Picoult

“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
― Tupac Shakur



“She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it. Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it. But life being what it is...a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control...

Benjamin Button

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.(f)

~Louise L. Hay

We do not see things as they are,
we see things as we are.

~The Talmud

“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.” ― Cassandra Clare


“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”― E.L. Konigsburg,

not *quite* Winston Churchill
 

"I've eaten burritos bigger than you"

Arizona Cardinal Football Player

:rofl:

"The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that." – Woody Allen

If a person is single, it doesn't really mean that he/she knows nothing about love. In fact, going solo is a lot wiser than being in a wrong relationship.

~Unknown

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. --Pearl S. Buck

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Gandhi

All right, sulk. But as you sit so...knees high,
the wild, spiral feathers accentuating the meeting of your thighs,
like dark grass grown in too rich a soil..

you are beautifully eloquent.


~W. Benton

A bend in the road is not the end of the road-Joan Lunden

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues. ” ― Nicholas Sparks

“Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
― Françoise Sagan

“I missed you so much," she breathed.
I tilted my head back and put my hands on her shoulders. I could hardly believe this was happening. I was finally getting to touch her. To kiss her. It was all happening. "I missed you, too.”
― Kieran Scott

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

~Kahlil Gibran(f)

going thru the journal
 

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

- (Robert Frost) The Road Not Taken

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

- Sir Winston Churchill

God is love and He loves all people.
It is His desire to reach out to those
who are poor, oppressed, widowed or orphaned,
and to heal the brokenhearted. :candle:

~Psalm 68:5,6
~1 John 4:16

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.(f)

~Khalil Gibran

Does that mean there are no leaves to rake? Because I'm thinking I might want a few of those for my yard. :)

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”― Nicholas Sparks

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” ― Alfred Tennyson

“You are, and always have been, my dream.”― Nicholas Sparks

This is exactly how I feel after working where I do...
 

Governments don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. That is against their interests. They want obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept it.
~George Carlin

This fits for me so close...as soon as we show any kind of critical thinking skills, we get silenced, ignored and shut down.

“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.”
― Sarah Dessen

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera


Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Khalil Gibran(f)

What's meant to be will always find a way” ― Trisha Yearwood

“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment; you're not be being true to yourself.”― Steve Maraboli

With this writing, whatever its faults, I express my gratitude to all devas, angels, and bodhisattvas who accompany, watch over, and protect explorers, pioneers, and artists.

- The Acknowledgements in Alice Walker's book, Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart

"It takes great courage to live according to your principles and values that are behind them, and to tolerate the pain, the isolation, and the anxiety of being different from other people, of being creative, of living a unique existence; the courage to face death with equanimity. To stand by one's beliefs is part of that, too. It takes courage to stand behind one's beliefs when they run counter to a society or a group or pressures from other people" ~Dr. Robert Firestone

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. (f)

~Jane Austen

"What value do I put on myself that I would subject myself to such rejection?
― Shannon Alder

“Because I was right. For me , home isn't a place. It's a person.
And I was finally home.” ― Stephanie Perkins

“Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”― Richelle Mead

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. (f)

~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward." ― Steve Maraboli

"Even on my weakest days
I get a little bit stronger" ― Sara Evans

"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When you are grown up, you will find that food is not a subject suitable for humor." -- Hercule Poirot