“Lack of confidence, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.” ― James Surowiecki


“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”― John D. Rockefeller


“No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.” Unknown

“Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.”

~Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947), American women's rights activist

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___WERE she to wander into a field of the rarest flowers - unparalleled in beauty - I do believe they would turn from her in jealousy. Were she perchance to smile - thought - she would win back their adoration - for they would think her to be the sun...

Don’t say you love me unless you really mean it, because I might do something crazy like believe it.
~Crush

The worst thing is holding on to someone who doesn’t want to be held on to.
~Lost Love

“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”
~ Shakespeare on Love

“Sorry,” he said. “Let me drop the belt-"
“No.” She held on when he would have pulled away. “Don’t. I like it.”
Again, he lifted her face, and he smiled. “The tool belt turns you on.”
“No.” She closed her eyes and thunked her forehead to his chest. “Little bit.”
― Jill Shalvis

“I generally find subtlety a waste of time.” ― Cindy Gerard


“Doesn't it scare you sometimes how time flies and nothing changes?”― Ika Natassa

It's about the heart ...
 

"'What is REAL?' asked the Rabbit one day, 'Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?''Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.[...] 'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?''It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to the people who don't understand.'."
~Margery Williams

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

~A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

"Will I wait a lonely lifetime? If you want me to, I will." -- The Beatles

"Time will prove my love to you and cement my place in your heart forever. For time will give me the credibility and the believability that I need to convince you to want to spend the rest of your life with me. That I am worthy of such a commitment from you."
-- Unknown

"If your are meant to be together forever, you will survive any obstacle or trouble that comes to you." -- Unknown

"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer." -- Woody Allen (this one made me laugh)

There is no disguise which can hide love for long...where it exists.



~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Give Pause and Reflect...yes...
 

"May you live every day of your life."
~Jonathan Swift

_____JUST watching you breathe will keep me fully engaged - (line from movie: - Flannel Pajama's)

"Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

" I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. " Pablo Neruda

Fear cannot touch me…
It can only taunt me,
It cannot take me
Just tell me where to go…
I can either follow,
Or stay in my bed…
I can hold on to the things that I know…
The dead stay dead, they cannot walk.
The shadows are darkness.
And darkness cannot talk.

-- Christopher Rice, "A Density of Souls"


I should have kissed you
I should have pushed you up against the wall
I should have kissed you
Just like I wasn’t scared at all

-- Gloriana, "Goodnight"

"Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away."
— William Shakespeare

Having a hangdog, woe-is-me look and whining whimper only works for puppy dogs – not for humans. No one wants to be around that type of person. So change your attitude, get your swagger back, take action, add value, live by example, and attract other good people into your life.

“The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.”

~ Norman Vincent Peale

A Thousand Kisses Deep
 

“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

“Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives."― Bell Hooks


“Dream of me," he said.
Dream of you? I'm doing that while I'm awake.”― Erin McCahan


“If you think I'm happy when you're not around, it's because I'm thinking of you.”
― Jamie McGuire

“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”

"Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain."
~Diane De Pointiers

"Dwell in possibility."
— Emily Dickinson

"Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope."
— John Johnson

"There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world." Tori Amos

Quotes, Poems & Sayings...
 

"Making Contact"

I believe the greatest gift I conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person. When this is done I feel contact has been made.

~Virginia Satir

Hereafter...in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.


~Shakespeare

"I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it."
~Leo F. Buscaglia

Do not live on the reflections of yourself in the eyes of others. Dare to be yourself.

(Inspired by a quote from Anaïs Nin)

You have the power to reshape and redefine any experience, no matter how devastating it seems. Look at your experience, and ask "How can I use this for my own growth?"

~Iyanla Vanzant


Pausing is a good thing. Everything has to stop at some time in order to keep going. To stop, to rest, or to pause means to do nothing. It means no thinking! No moving! No decisions! What a blessing it is to have the ability to stop and gain strength before moving forward.

~~Iyanla Vanzant