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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest. All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you. Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments. Children make your life important. Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids. Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy. For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it. God created man, but I could do better. Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad. Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. ___________________ All quotes by Erma Bombeck |
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." ~ Plato
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I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. - Emily Bronte
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"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." ~James Thurber |
"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us." - John Steinbeck |
"At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it." - Yukio Mishima |
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." - Buddha |
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
~Buddha |
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
~T. S. Elliott |
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997) |
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs |
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
Malcolm Forbes |
Poetry... even in an 80s teen movie :)
I'll sing to you of silver swans, of kingdoms and carillons. I'll sing of bodies intertwined underneath an innocent sky
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from one of my favorite movies ~ Elizabethtown
"Because we have a moment here, let me tell you that I have recently become a secret connoisseur of 'last looks'. You know the way people look at you when they believe it's for the last time? I've started collecting these looks."
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the clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness -
trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! - -- John Muir we thought, i want to do what John Muir did - -- Peter Thomas |
WOMAN'S HEART
A woman's heart will not change with time or season; even if it dies eternally, it will never perish. A woman's heart is like a field turned into a battleground; after all the trees are uprooted and the grass is burned and the rocks are reddened with blood and the earth is planted with bones and skulls, it is calm and silent as if nothing has happened; for the spring and autumn come at their intervals and resume their work.- Kahlil Gibran
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Friends are relatives you make for yourself. :girlonatv:
~Eustache Deschamps |
“The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.” - Barbara De Angelis |
“Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist” - Marquis De Sade |
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
~ Thomas Haliburton, 19th Century Canadian writer |
Trust
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ~Billy Wilder
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
--Alice Walker |
"Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love." EA Opheliac WS Hamlet, "Letter to Ophelia" |
The Weight
by Linda Gregg Two horses were put together in the same paddock. Night and day. In the night and in the day wet from heat and the chill of the wind on it. Muzzle to water, snorting, head swinging and the taste of bay in the shadowed air. The dignity of being. They slept that way, knowing each other always. Withers quivering for a moment, fetlock and the proud rise at the base of the tail, width of back. The volume of them, and each other's weight. Fences were nothing compared to that. People were nothing. They slept standing, their throats curved against the other's rump. They breathed against each other, whinnied and stomped. There are things they did that I do not know. The privacy of them had a river in it. Had our universe in it. And the way its border looks back at us with its light. This was finally their freedom. The freedom an oak tree knows. That is built at night by stars. |
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."(f)
– Winston Churchill |
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” - Edgar Allan Poe
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“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” - Aristotle |
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life” - Aphra Behn |
“Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” - Stacey Charter |
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Eldridge Cleaver |
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect.
We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. U. Thant |
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.(f)
Arnold Toynbee 1852-1883, British Economic Historian and Social Reformer |
The journey is the reward . -Chinese Proverb |
"You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible." - Rita Dove
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A new principle to live by...
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers
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"Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride." - William Gass |
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
--Lily Tomlin |
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'
~C. S. Lewis |
"A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker; and a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker." ~Anonymous
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