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If it fires you up, you gotta let it shine...
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There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. ~John Erskine
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"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'” - Charles M. Schulz
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"spending one's life unrecognized by the world is not nearly as painful as sinking into insignificance after having once mattered very much to one special person." me
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Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.
~Astrid Alauda |
I do not pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what love is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them then any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including some of the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.
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“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
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“You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And all you've done is go farther and farther away from the precious love that's been waiting for you all the time.”
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You Inspire Me...
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT There is something incredibly beautiful so, amazingly alive about her I can feel her cool calmness sparkling across the surface laminating yet reflecting this mysteriously pure power twirling from within I can hear the voice of her being flowing through me beckoning me to her like the sweetest of lullabys soothing my soul and, I know if I could dream at all it would be about her as, I try to imagine the taste of her tears. TROOPER 04/2010 |
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
~Leonardo da Vinci (born this day in 1452) |
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
~Leonardo da Vinci |
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller
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God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward
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We are all something, but none of us are everything.
~ Blaise Pascal |
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
~ Hermann Hesse |
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
~Bertrand Russell |
The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.
-James Allen You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. -James Allen |
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you” - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~ Charles M. Schulz
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"We live in a society that equates money,power,and status with dignity; when usually nothing could be further from the truth" Steve Earle
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When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
~ Unknown |
"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction." - Chuck Palahniuk
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson |
This woman is an idiot.
~ Keith Olbermann, speaking of Sarah Palin Right on, Keith. Right on. |
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ~Benjamin Franklin
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
~ Anias Nin |
You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.
~Steven D. Woodhull |
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
~William James |
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. " ~Albert Schweitzer . |
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Hit Girl: You just contact the mayor's office. He has a special signal he shines in the sky; it's in the shape of a giant cock! |
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
--Buddha |
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
--C. S. Lewis |
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
--Ellen Glasgow |
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
--Bertolt Brecht |
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
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From "A Note On Vocabulary In the Cardiometabolic Field"
We have such an itch for pattern and narrative, such a ravenous hunger for order, But there is no pattern, there is no order, there isn't really even a coherent Narrative shape. The fact of the matter is that at best we maunder forward with all Possible grace in the moments when we are not thrashing and sobbing and crazy. - Brian Doyle |
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. -- Francis Bacon
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"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?" - Walt Whitman
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Ten years ago, I was a social worker in Tennessee, doing crisis intervention work with delinquent kids and their families. I was hundreds of miles away from loved ones or anyone remotely close to me, I was lonely, struggling with coming out of the closet to my family, and my personal life was a general mess. One morning, I was at the courthouse for the hearing of one of the kids on my caseload, and in the middle of the crowded a lobby, an elderly gentleman stopped me and handed me a business card before continuing to pass through and exit the courthouse. The card was pink and had roses on it. On one side was a bible verse. On the other, it read:
You will never leave where you are until you decide where you would rather be. I don't know who the man was or why he gave me that card. I've held onto it ever since, and as a matter of fact, it has a permanent place on my desk and is sitting here right in front of me. I've looked at it many times over the years and considered tossing it, but I knew that with my tendency to be an impulsive and leaping-without-looking kind of girl, I needed to hold onto it as a reminder, and it's served that very purpose. I've read it and have even repeated those words to myself out loud on numerous occasions. You will never leave where you are until you decide where you would rather be... Or where you belong... or don't belong... Or where is healthiest for you... Or where you can most respect yourself... Or what you can live with and what you can't... Or where you can call home and truly be happy... Although I think I've done a lot of growing up and am finally at that place, I'll still hold onto that card, and I will never forget the face of the kindly old man who gave it to me, nor the tangible piece of wisdom he gifted me with a decade ago. |
solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost --
-- Kevin Patterson rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them -- -- John mcphee the act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium -- -- Norbet Platt |
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