The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
-
Eleanor Roosevelt

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
-
Francis Bacon

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-
James Thurber

I needed this one today....
 

"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."
~George Carlin

"Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep."
~Samuel Johnson

“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words make and stay become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free. -- Tom Robbins

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.




~Henry David Thoreau

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.--Paul Dirac

"He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection."
~ Khalil Gibran

I feel opposite of this quote actually. When noone loves you that's when you really have to love yourself. And that is why you have to, as well. Sort of like when you are pedaling uphill and it is getting really hard to pedal, that is when you have to pedal twice as hard. Just my spin on it.

“And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The better I, for all I learned.” ― Dorothy Parker

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”
― Jim Henson

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” ― Ayn Rand

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Khalil Gibran

Some days you are the dog, some days you are the tree.

Love is a great beautifier.--Louisa May Alcott

"To get ahead in life, you have to learn to saddle your own horse."

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

~Edmund Burke~

I Crave Your Mouth - Pablo Neruda




I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent, starving I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disquiets me,
I search the liquid sound of your steps all day.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
For your hands the color of the wild grain,
I hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your loveliness,
The nose, sovereign of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

And I walk hungry, smelling the twilight
Looking for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barren wilderness.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. ~Stephen R. Covey

THE SHEPHERD
 

ENDURANCE
"Can thy heart endure?
Ezek. 22:14

At times when you are not secure...
Determine that you will endure...
When Hate and Persecution make...
Your lot seem worse than you can take...
Don't panic or curse back or quit...
Be patient, calm, and stick with it...
Right will prevail, have Faith and Hope...
And with God's help endure and cope...
With bitter and false accusation...
And overcome Hate's condemnation.
Julien C. Hyer

“Courage is not living without fear. Courage is being scared to death, but doing the right thing anyway. -Unknown”

First Snow, (Excerpted from American Primitive), Mary Oliver

The snow
began here
this morning and all day
continued, its white
rhetoric everywhere
calling us back to why, how,
whence such beauty and what
the meaning; such
an oracular fever! flowing
past windows, an energy it seemed
would never ebb, never settle
less than lovely! and only now,
deep into night,
it has finally ended.
The silence
is immense,
and the heavens still hold
a million candles, nowhere
the familiar things:
stars, the moon,
the darkness we expect
and nightly turn from. Trees
glitter like castles
of ribbons, the broad fields
smolder with light, a passing
creek bed lies
heaped with shining hills;
and though the questions
that have assailed us all day
remain — not a single
answer has been found –
walking out now
into the silence and the light
under the trees,
and through the fields,
feels like one.

In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful.

Rob Brezsny

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click—you’re comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don’t have to pretend to be anyone or anything. ~ Alexandra Adornetto

Mistakes are proof that you are trying. ~Anonymous

It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. ~Chuck Palahniuk

It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. ~ Lillian Hellman

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. ~ Stephen Hawking

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. --Antisthenes

"Never turn your back on something you love."- Unknown


“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.”
― Marilyn Vos Savant


“Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my father would have done. If I can't be with him, the least I can do is act like him sometimes.” - Unknown

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb

COMPARISON is the thief of joy -Theodor Roosevelt