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If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.
~John Maxwell |
~ People who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead. I doubt you'll find many successful people who have not experienced this. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. ~ Anthony Robbins |
“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
--Mercedes Lackey |
When she sees his eyes later -- red and swollen
and faraway, she remembers the symmetry of the stars at night, and whispers freely, I don't know what to do with the poetry. I don't know what to do with my body. He tells her she has done it already. - Fanny Howe |
To Have Without Holding
Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the wind roaring and whimpering in the rooms rustling the sheets and snapping the blinds that thwack like rubber bands in an open palm. It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles that feel as if they are made of wet plaster, then of blunt knives, then of sharp knives. It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again. It pesters to remember the lover who is not in the bed, to hold back what is owed to the work that gutters like a candle in a cave without air, to love consciously, conscientiously, concretely, constructively. I can't do it, you say it's killing me, but you thrive, you glow on the street like a neon raspberry, You float and sail, a helium balloon bright bachelor's button blue and bobbing on the cold and hot winds of our breath, as we make and unmake in passionate diastole and systole the rhythm of our unbound bonding, to have and not to hold, to love with minimized malice, hunger and anger moment by moment balanced. --Sharon Olds |
Speak the truth.
Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods. ~Buddha |
Happiness is not a station to arrive at,
but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck |
The Pure Stuff
I wasn’t exactly sure how to tap into this subterranean sea that I sensed (or, rather, hoped) lay beneath my crusty separate self like an aquifer beneath a desert. I had no divining rod except a raggedy sort of faith in the power of love - the pure stuff, not the compromised cupfuls we flavor and bottle and hand out in small portions and sometimes take back. |
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein |
“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone”- Sam Levenson |
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
~William Shakespeare |
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There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.
~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster |
"I am not afraid of storms, I am learning to sail my own ship."
~ Louise May Alcott "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." ~ Annie Dillard "Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." ~ William Durant |
"We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad." ~ Chris Stevens, "Northern Exposure"
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human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted
martin luther king, jr. |
"I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man with no feet. "
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
~Doris Lessing |
Within us is the soul of the whole; the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal One. When it breaks through our intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through our will, it is virtue; when it flows through our affections, it is love. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) The Oversoul
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“Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.”
MWhitner Calvin & Hobbes quotes |
I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile
is very important in our day~to~day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behavior. ~His Holiness the Dalai Lama |
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