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You cannot find peace by avoiding life. --Virginia Woolf
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We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown
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Dream Deferred
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Langston Hughes |
A light heart lives long. - William Shakespeare
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to have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self -
Hamilton Wright Mabie -- this severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy - Charles Gounod -- |
life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces -
the moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself - Henry Miller - |
Risk! Risk anything!
Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Katherine Mansfield |
One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. ~Emily Dickinson, "Time and Eternity" |
"Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door." ~Saul Bellow |
"It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?" ~Lord Byron |
"Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened." ~T.S. Eliot |
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood."
~Ralph Nichols (April is National Autism Awareness Month ~ there couldn't be a better time to reach out and understand.) |
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The world was made round so that we would never be able to see too far down the road." - Isak Dinesen
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"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision." ~ Unknown
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
~ Toni Morrison |
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ~ Lao Tzu
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"Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. "
— Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men in a Boat) |
Advice from Dr. FeelGood......
Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick once and suck forever. ~unknown~ :2nddaywalker: Roses are red, the sun is gold. Get on your knees, and do as you're told. ~unknown~ :spank: At one time or another I have insulted everybody, and I am proud of that. Folks, let me sum it up for you: I think religion is bad, and drugs are good. I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun and young people should be discouraged from voting. I think stereotypes are true, abstinence is a pervsion, Bushs lies are worse than Clintons and there is nothing sexy about being old or pregnant. I think 9-11 changed nothing, and if I had known the onset of war would add a hundred points on to Bushs IQ, I would have started one. I think pornography stops rape, I think AIDS ribbons are stupid, and flag burning makes me feel patriotic. I think death is not the worst thing that can happen. I think people have too much self-esteem, and being drunk is funny. I think children are not innocent, God doesnt write books, and Jesus wasnt a republican. I am for mad cow disease, and against suing tobacco companies. I think girls hate each other, no doesnt always mean no, you have to lie to stay married, womens sports are boring, and the Olympics are gay. :overreaction: ~Bill Maher~ |
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown |
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. ~ Thomas Carlyle :cowboihorse:
"Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. " — Jerome K. Jerome ETHAN |
"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn
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“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.” - Alexander Graham Bell |
“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment” - Carl Sandburg |
“Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.” - Jan Myrdal |
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen |
There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
~Thomas Merton |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
-- Jack Kerouac |
“Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn’t glitter and shine.” - Chuck Palahniuk
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"You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel." - Author Unknown |
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
~Brigham Young |
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
~Voltaire |
" If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." - Buddha |
"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."- Ansel Adams |
Happy 205th Birthday.
“Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” - Hans Christian Andersen |
"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." ~William Shakespeare |
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