There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what other people think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

words of wisdom from my coffee cup...
 

Time is the ultimate teacher. Class is in session. Take notes there will be many tests. -
Unknown

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.' ~ Demetri Martin

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it. ~ Ninon de L'Enclos

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal.
A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

~ Leonard Cohen

KNOWING YOU COULD IS BETTER THAN KNOWING YOU WILL
by Mark Bibbins

I must see you; let’s meet at the fringes of respectability
at quarter past nine. We could straddle the oft-licked
curb (it’s the repetition we like). I promise not to say
anything louche when you buss the backs of my fingers.

What is that noise coming from the other side of the river—
maybe pavement being set perfectly straight or a woozy guitar.
In light like this we become automatic and can reach each other—
what a difficult noise to hold and clearly making love is all that.

Juiced, I’m sure we’re taller than before and don’t miss
what we’ve lost. Meanwhile the streetlights blush
in their globes as if they could tell how the party towed us
along like a chain of rollerblading kids latched onto a bus.

Later let’s go swimming down by the electrical plant
since as you know the water runs out warmest from its pipes.
Bring on the horse tranquilizers
for my listing heart is pecker-fretted, truculent and true.

“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.” ~Robert Frost

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
~Fred G. Gosman

From my favorite poem....
 

S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo. ~T.S. Eliot

"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
--Robert A. Heinlein

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
~Kimberly Johnson

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. ~Mignon McLaughlin

When you realize you’ve made a mistake, make amends immediately. It’s easier to eat crow while it’s still warm.
~Dan Heist

Asking the right question......
 

Sometimes you have to leave your comfort zone to grow. Its not up to anyone else but yourself to do this.


"If you have the spirit of understanding everything and taking it in a positive way you will enjoy every second of life whether it is pleasure or pressure."



"Some people think
I say inappropriate
things......
I prefer
to think of it as,
radical honesty."

Home
 

“Home is not where you live, but where they understand you”
Christian Morganstern

“He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
Maya Angelou

“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.”
Charles Dickens

“Home, the spot of earth supremely blessed, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest”
Robert Montgomery

“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility.”
Albert Einstein

“It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.”
Sophocles