You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. -Albert Einstein

Let This Sink In
 

You can't always obtain what you want, so pull up your socks and move on. Wallowing in snide self pity, makes you look like a desperate 4 year old. I mean really, there are other boobs to chase.

-My daughter (telling her boyfriend)

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

― Pablo Neruda

“If you're reading this...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.”

― Chad Sugg

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” ― Sarah Williams

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~Wayne Dyer

Just exquisitely expressed -
 

Everything
just as it is,
as it is,
as is.
Flowers in bloom.
Nothing to add.
Nothing to reduce.
The entire world.
Hiroshima.
When people talk about war
I vow with all beings
to raise my voice in the chorus

and speak of original peace.

-Robert Aitken Roshi

For mothers here and those in memory.
 

MAYA ANGELOU

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“There's never an easy route to the things that matter.” ― Charles de Lint

“I dwell on endless possibilities.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.
And without feet I can make my way to you,
without a mouth I can swear your name.

Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you
with my heart as with a hand.
Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.
And if you consume my brain with fire,
I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

THIS will change your life, for the better.
 

“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

"The law of centrifugal force seems to be as true for the human condition as it is for the Newtonian mechanics. The faster our lives spin, the more things tend to fly apart." ~ Richard Paul Evans, Lost December

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Laurence J. Peter

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly"
- GK Chesterton

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.” ― Sylvia Plath

“I have learned one lesson in all this and I will share it knowing it will do no one any good. The lesson is this: "There are none more complicit in one's undoing than one's own heart".” ― James Pratt

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”

― Charlotte Brontë

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ― Alice Walker

“to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”

― Ellen Bass

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces -- my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined." ~ Elizabeth Edwards

"Sexuality is who you go to bed WITh. Gender is who you go to bed AS."