"Being mysterious is nothing more than withholding the truth. Therefore I don't find mysterious men intriguing or sexy. Just dishonest." - The Vera Wood Files

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
~Baltasar Gracián

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
--G.K. Chesterton

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
~John Muir

It is a Rumi kind of day
 

“I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!”
― Milton Erickson


“IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.” ― Nadia Sahari


"Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."-Paul D”

“What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley


“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
~John Muir

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln


To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.



~Fran Lebowitz

Love is energy of life.--Robert Browning

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” -― Albert Einstein


“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” -― Francis Bacon


“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”― Brian Tracy

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves." Gandhi

I have taught myself to sew, cook, fix plumbing, build furniture, … I can even pat myself on the back when necessary. All so I don’t have to ask anyone for anything. There’s nothing I need from anyone except for love and respect. And anyone who can’t give me those two things has no place in my life.
— Harvey Fierstein (Arnold), Torch Song Trilogy

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.--Epictetus

Close your eyes and you will see clearly
Cease to listen and you will hear truth
Be silent and your heart will sing
Seek no contact and you will find union
Be still and you will move forward on the tide of the Spirit
Be gentle and you will need no strength
Be patient and you will achieve all things
Be humble and you will remain entire
- Swami Rama

-Marion Anderson
 

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.”― Stephen Fry


“Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved.” ― Thomas S. Monson

"A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."
~Charlie Chaplin

"One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can." - Frederick Buechner

"Optimist: Someone who figures out that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha."

-Robert Brault

I am still learning.--Michelangelo

I *heart* this poem
 

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond


somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands


e. e. cummings

“If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.”
― Mark Twain


“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” ― Patrick Ness


"I do not know everything; still many things I understand.” ― Madeleine L'Engle

Loved this, repeating...echo echo. :hangloose:

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist