Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

Barbara Ehrenreich

You must do the things you think you cannot do.--Eleanor Roosevelt

007: You look exquisite in that dress
Girl: Thank you - your scruffiness doesn't clean up so bad yourself
007: It's amazing what an extra pair of hands can accomplish!

(skyfall)

___________Watching Skyfall and 007 last night - of course... I smiled at this little interchange...proof positive - that behind every well dressed man - is indeed an (exquisite) woman helping him! :) lol! (or at least 99% true)!

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When you try to control everything, you enjoy nothing.
Relax, breathe, let go, and just live.

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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - To breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. ♥

~ Marcus Aurelius

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If we encounter a man of rare intellecut we should ask what books he reads – Ralph waldo emerson

"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."
Maya Angelou

“Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise”― Debra Anastasia



“Carry the fire.” ― Cormac McCarthy


“I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.”― Sharon Kay Penman

"Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."
~Thomas A. Edison

The focus I choose today will lead me towards abundance.
~Anonymous

"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
~Unknown

I'm Aryon and I'd like to take a few moments of your time to tell you why I relay.

This time last year I was giving thanks for second chances. I had been a survivor and a caregiver. Later on in the relay season, July 4th to be precise, another reason was added.
I was told I faced the battle again, the journey from laughter and light into darkness and tears and hopefully back out again.

This year I am relaying as a caregiver and two time survivor and I am not only relaying for those who face the rocky path through the darkness, but for those who care for them. Be they friends, work-mates or family. I am relaying for each person that said prayers and held me in their thoughts as I traveled my path.

Relay For Life, because of life, because you love.

---Sarojini Naidu
 

I got this poem in a book I was reading I really loved it.



All Is Well - Henry Scott Holland

Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped away into the next room,
I am I, and you are you,
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still,
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the same easy way which you always did,
Put no difference into your tone;
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect, without the shadow of a ghost on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was; there is absolutely unbroken continuity,
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am just waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner.
All is well.

Henry Scott Holland

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matter compared to what lies within us"-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cant think your way into right living, you have to live your way into right thinking"-unknown

"Education is not about learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think"-
Albert Einstein

“A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.” ― Nicholas Sparks


“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”― Madeleine Albright



“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.” ― Euripides

You can not shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. Maya Angelou

Everyone comes with some baggage.
Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

This is a new favorite of mine....

"How does one become a butterfly?' she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." Triss Paulus

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” ― Irina Dunn



“A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. ” ― Christian Dior


“Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.” ― Brian Tracy

[after Coffey shares his cornbread with Del]

I thank you. Mr. Jingles thank you, my momma would thank you too. but she dead.

Eduard Delacroix

"To be kind is sometimes more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens." Unknown

Robert Frost
 

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire.
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great, and would suffice.

I love that woman more than anything - i mean like more than sharks love blood (kevin spacey in Netflix series House of Cards).

"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses." Lao Tzu