You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”― C.S. Lewis

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.” -Sara Gruen


“You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.”― Steve Maraboli

The Quiet World
BY JEFFREY MCDANIEL

In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allot each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.

When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.

Late at night, I call my long distance lover,
proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.

When she doesn't respond,
I know she’s used up all her words,
so I slowly whisper I love you
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.

....what is savage is in the deepest sense gentle..and what is wild is kind.
In the end, a strangely sweet result...I came back to a wild home.

~Jay Griffiths

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

~Lou Holtz

"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."

~Stephen R. Covey

“The best things in life make you sweaty.”- unknown


“That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.” ― Adriana Trigiani



“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” ― José N. Harris

"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination."

~Don Williams, Jr

"A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life."

~Hugh Sidney

Remember, Body ...
by C. P. Cavafy
translated by Aliki Barnstone


Body, remember not only how much you were loved,
not only the beds where you lay,
but also those desires for you,
shining clearly in eyes
and trembling in a voice—and some chance
obstacle thwarted them.
Now when everything is the past,
it almost looks as if you gave yourself
to those desires as well—how they shone—
remember—in the eyes that looked at you,
how they trembled for you in the voice—remember, body.

Words to live by
 

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- Maya Angelou

"Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart."

~Unknown

"Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive."

~Stacey Charter

Quotes
 

To enjoy the flavor of life take big bites. Kind words can be short and easy to speak,but their echoes are truly endless.

“Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, without her.― Becca Fitzpatrick

“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.” ― Jodi Picoult


“Love me like you'll never see me again.” ― Unknown

When they go fishing, it is not really fish they are after. It is a philosophic meditation. ~E.T. Brown (Thanks, Walden Woods Project, walden.org)


No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
~Terry Josephson


One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem. ~Alexander Jodorowsky


I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

~Henry Van Dyke

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

~William James

"Curiosity is nothing more than freewheeling intelligence."

~Unknown

“Being honest in a relationship is at times exceedingly difficult and painful. Yet the moment a person evades the truth, central fibers of the self pull away and the person initiates a process of deception - a way of manipulating the other person by preventing the person from discovering real thoughts and real feelings, and thus dooming the relationship” ― Clark Mustakas


“Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.”
― Elizabeth Scott

“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”― Steve Maraboli

Very true. :)

“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” ― Jean Baptiste Massieu

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.” ― Henry Ward Beecher

“Laughter is the language of angels.” ― Steve Rother

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young.
In your relationships with others, always be grown-up.

~Tom Brokaw

"If you think your gonna die, don't."-105 year old Veteran Fred Hale

Not to Keep

They sent him back to her. The letter came
Saying... And she could have him. And before
She could be sure there was no hidden ill
Under the formal writing, he was in her sight,
Living. They gave him back to her alive
How else? They are not known to send the dead
And not disfigured visibly. His face?
His hands? She had to look, and ask,
"What was it, dear?" And she had given all
And still she had all they had they the lucky!
Wasn’t she glad now? Everything seemed won,
And all the rest for them permissible ease.
She had to ask, "What was it, dear?"

"Enough,"
Yet not enough. A bullet through and through,
High in the breast. Nothing but what good care
And medicine and rest, and you a week,
Can cure me of to go again." The same
Grim giving to do over for them both.
She dared no more than ask him with her eyes
How was it with him for a second trial.
And with his eyes he asked her not to ask.
They had given him back to her, but not to keep.
Robert Frost

Quotes
 

1)The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,and not twist them to fit our own image.Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton 2) It should be a priviledge to say I Love You to someone.It shouldnt be something you say because you feel like it.A priviledge that is earned.They say you have to earn the right to be loved. No Love is unconditional,if you Love someone,they dont have to earn it.But the right to tell someone you Love them?That has to be earned.You have to earn the right to be believed. C JoyBell

great song by a great artist!

Alicia Keys - Like You'll Never See Me Again

If I had no more time
No more time left to be here
Would you cherish what we had?
Was I everything that you were looking for?

If I couldn't feel your touch
And no longer were you with me
I'd be wishing you were here
To be everything that I've been looking for

I don't want to forget the present is a gift
And I don't want to take for granted
The time you may have here with me
'Cause Lord only knows another day here's not really guaranteed

So every time you hold me
Hold me like this is the last time
Every time you kiss me
Kiss me like you'll never see me again

Every time you touch me
Touch me like this is the last time
Promise that you'll love me
Love me like you'll never see me again

How many really know what love is?
Millions never will
Do you know until you lose it?
That it's everything that we are looking for

When I wake up in the morning
And you're beside me
I'm so thankful that I found
Everything that I've been looking for

I don't wanna forget the present is a gift
And I don't wanna take for granted
The time you may have here with me
'Cause Lord only knows another day here's not really guaranteed

So every time you hold me
Hold me like this is the last time
Every time you kiss me
Kiss me like you'll never see me again

“I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.”
― Dee Henderson

“I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.”― Becca Fitzpatrick


“His hands lay flat on either side of him, his arms at his sides. He seemed barely to be breathing; she wasn't sure she was breathing herself. She slid her own hand across the bedsheet, just far enough that their fingers touched-so lightly that she would have probably hardly been aware of it had she been touching anyone; as it was, the nerve endings in her fingertips pricked softly, as if she were holding them over a low flame. She felt him tense beside her and then relax. He had shut his eyes, and his lashes cast fine shadows against the curve of his cheekbones. His mouth curled into a smile as if he sensed her watching him, and she wondered how he would look in the morning, with his hair messed and sleep circles under his eyes. Despite everything, the thought gave her a jolt of happiness.
She laced her fingers through his. "Good night," she whispered. With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.”
― Cassandra Clare

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

~Jane Austen

The greatest weakness of humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.


~O.A. Battista

Wisdom
 

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way
Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day-
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee- and love so
wrought,
May be unwrought so.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“None of us can choose where we shall love...” - Susan Kay

“To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. ” ― Victoria Moran


“Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.- Anthony Bridgerton”