>>>AMEN & HALLELUJAH to that!!>>>>:nixon:

"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."
Thich Nhat Hanh

We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.

~ Shams Tabrizi

Mary Oliver
 

We are always looking for the perfect relationship. The goal is to find that perfect someone who will make our lives a better place to be. But no one can give us what we don't already have. We have to ask ourselves, "Am I doing my best, giving my all, being the best I can be to myself?" When we can pass the test of self-acceptance, the perfect someone who will compliment all that we already are will walk right through the door.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

“Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.”
~ J.D. Stroube

“If you don't want to tear off the clothes of the person you're on a date with and jump into bed with them, then what's the point? I'd never date; instead, I'd have lots of good friends and hug them a lot and life would be easier and neater and uncomplicated."― Rachel Machacek



“You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love. By all accounts, I do wish I could steal it. But I am not that sort of man. I will wait. Forever and a day...I will wait."― Renee Vincent


“Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.”
― Rob Bell

"Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star…" E.E. Cummings

Quotes About Alison Peers

“I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of feeling and admirably descriptive of her pain: they did not come from her understanding, but, in order the better to enjoy the bliss which came to her from such delectable pain, she complained of it to her Goddess. She would have been so glad if she could have been cut to pieces, body and soul, to show what joy this pain caused her. What torments could have been set before her at such a time which she would not have found it delectable to endure for her DOMME/DOM's sake?”
Teresa of Ávila

Adapted two words to make the quote more apt of me/us.

The true joy of my suffering is the delight i see in my lovers eyes as they deliver me into ecstasy's hands

"Appreciate what you have, before time teaches you to appreciate what you had."

~Unknown

"Some people are brought into your life to be mirrors,to show you behaviors and havits that need to change."

~Mandy Hale

“Sometimes you have to experience the bad so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.”

~ Leon Brown

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”

~ Oprah Winfrey


"If you love a flower, don’t pick it up because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation."

~Osho

"“Take hold of your own life.
See that the whole existence is celebrating.
These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious.
The rivers and the oceans are wild,
and everywhere there is fun,
everywhere there is joy and delight.
Watch existence,
listen to the existence and become part of it.”
~ Osho

"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections."
~Unknown

"Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to."
~Unknown

“Remember: the time you feel the loneliest ,is the time you most need to be by yourself.― Douglas Coupland


“When you get lonely think to yourself : So WHAT BE lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Sit with it, for once in your life !!! ― Elizabeth Gilbert


" I will never again use another person as a filler for my own unfulfilled yearnings. I was afraid of being lonely and alone, so I latched on to someone else to fill the void. This has created a horribly deep loneliness. And now I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all. " - The Vera Wood Files

I'm not sure what your problem is...but, I bet it's hard to pronounce.

Kurt Vonnegut
 

“It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!”
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on”
~Theodore Roosevelt


“Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.”
~ Katie Couric

As i embarked on a new evolution of self today these words came to mind. i think Anais Nin captured life like photographs capture the image of life so perfectly.

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anaïs Nin

“There are two kinds of strengths: the strength to lead, and the strength to follow; the strength to control, and the strength to yield.

There are two kinds of power: the power to strip another’s soul bare, and the power to stand naked.” ~ Yaldah Tovah

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"Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest."
~Unknown

"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels."
~Bertolt Brecht

"Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it."
~Unknown

It's not what you look at that matters, but what you see. - Thoreau

“Promise Yourself

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

“ The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a sacred encounter and with it , wisdom.” ― Paulo Coelho



“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.” ― Paulo Coelho



“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” ― C.S. Lewis

ONLY the weak are cruel...gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

“Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. - M. Angelou

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt in "Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

If it doesn't nourish your soul - get rid of it. simple. as. that.

“When you stumble make it part of the dance.” Unknown

“It's all about love. We're either in love, dreaming about love, recovering from it, wishing for it or reflecting on it. - Unknown


“When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.”
― Margaret Stohl


“...lies can sound awfully pretty when one is in love with the person telling them.”― Gabrielle Zevin