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"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake." - Frederick Douglass |
"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 |
"We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine." - Dwight L. Moody |
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia |
To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. Doménico Cieri Estrada |
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together. Barbara De Angelis |
You must first have a good relationship with yourself before you can have a
good relationship with others. You have to feel worthwhile and acceptable in your own eyes. The more independent you are, the better you'll be able to connect and relate with others. Gary Emery |
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.(f)
Mortimer Adler American, Philosopher Quotes |
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
~ Rumi This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whomever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ~ Rumi |
Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres ~ Mom's favorite
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"The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame."(f)
– Bill Crawford |
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
~W. C. Fields |
I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
~Daphne du Maurier |
"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” - Aaron Copland |
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” - Maxwell Maltz |
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death” - Albert Einstein |
We need to find the "middle way" in our own lives. It is the art of
finding balance. Reflecting upon our lives, we soon discover what serves us well--nurturing calmness, ease, and simplicity. We also discover what it is that leads to entanglement, confusion, distress, and anxiety. Wisdom is being able to discern the difference, then knowing what we need to nurture and what we need to learn to let go. Christina Feldman |
Weakness and strength are necessary for balance. No one or nothing is only
weak or only strong. But some of us overlook our weaknesses, and even deny that we have them. That can be dangerous, because denying there is a weakness is in itself a weakness. Likewise, accepting that we have weaknesses becomes a strength. And by the same token, overestimating strength is a weakness. You should not be blinded by your strengths. The feeling of strength is not the same as having strength. Neither should you ignore your weaknesses. Know them well, too. Joseph M. Marshall III |
During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end. Harriet Doerr |
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and your are the mirror. Khalil Gibran |
"Intelligence is not something possessed once for all. It is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn and courage in re-adjustment."
-John Dewey (1895-1952) |
I have never gone to sleep with a grievance against anyone. And, as far as I could, I have never let anyone go to sleep with a grievance against me. -Abba Agathon, monk (4th/5th century)
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You're braver than You believe,
and stronger than You seem, and smarter than You think. ~A. A. Milne |
"I need you to take the base, I can handle the tip."
--G |
Your mental state should always remainn calm.
Even if some anxiety occurs, as it is bound to in life, You should always remain calm. Like a wave, which rises from the water & dissolves back into the water, these disturbances are very short, so they should not affect Your basic mental attitude. ~The Dalai Lama |
He that can have patience can have what he will.
~Ben Franklin |
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. -- Tolstoy
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"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied." - Arnold H. Glasow
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Fairness is what justice really is.
~Potter Stewart |
one of my favorites.. and much needed today,
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~Blaise Pascal |
Writing is the supreme solace.
~William Somerset Maugham |
Tongue in cheek.....from SNL
Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.
~Jack Handy |
"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it." ~Jacques Prévert |
"Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress." - Bruce Barton |
"Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day." ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.
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"For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it." --Ivan Panin
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