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Love <4
A life without love is a waste. “Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?”, don’t ask yourself this question. Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love doesn’t need any name, category or definition. Love is a world itself. Either you are in, at the center…either you are out, yearning... ~ Shams |
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“There is a difference between saying goodbye and letting go. Goodbye is not permanent. You can meet years later as old friends and share what happened in your life. You can smile and laugh about all the nonsense that you both went through. However, letting go is being okay with never seeing this person ever again…being okay with never knowing how their life turned out…being okay with fifty or more years of silence… being okay with running into that person at a grocery store and having them not acknowledge your presence. This is the part of life that doesn’t sit well with me and never will. It tears my heart in pieces, robs me of gratitude, drains me of anything positive and eats at the faith that holds on. It goes against kindness.”
― Shannon L. Alder |
Junot Díaz - This Is How You Lose Her
“You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You must remind her that you are there. You must know how long it takes for her to give up. You must be there to hold her when she is about to. You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept. And, this is how you keep her.” - Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her |
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"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves." Albert Guinon
I caught myself doing this very thing today. Thankfully, the person with whom I was conversing with was extremely gracious and forgiving. -Jesse |
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"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." Oscar Wilde |
Unwanted favors gain no gratitude. —Sophocles
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It is often easier to fight for principles that to live up to them. —Adlai Stevenson
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Rumi
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“As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don’t deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.”
--Pema Chodron |
“Venus favors the bold.” Ovid
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"Don't worry much if your wife is fateful or not, worry more whether or not you do everything you can to make her happy, for happy ones rarely go screwing around."
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To be human...
"... To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance. You are not a troubled guest on this earth, you are not an accident amidst other accidents you were invited from another and greater night than the one from which you have just emerged ..." - David Whyte |
Imagination...
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death...” - Robert Fulghum |
I am <3
“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.” ~Warsan Shire |
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Proof of Poetry
BY TOM SLEIGH I wanted first to end up as a drunk in the gutter and in my twenties I almost ended up there— and then as an alternative to vodka, to live alone like a hermit philosopher and court the extreme poverty that I suspected lay in store for me anyway— and then there were the years in which I needed very badly to take refuge in mediocrity, years like blunt scissors cutting out careful squares, and that was the worst, the very worst— you could say that always my life was like a patchwork quilt always ripped apart— my life like scraps stitched together in a dream in which animals and people, plants, chimeras, stars, even minerals were in a preordained harmony— a dream forgotten because it has to be forgotten, but that I looked for desperately, but only sporadically found in fragments, a hand lifted to strike or caress or simply lifted for some unknown reason— and in memory too, some specific pain, sensation of cold or warmth. I loved that harmony in all its stages of passion, the voices still talking inside me . . . but then, instead of harmony, there was nothing but rags scattered on the ground. |
IN THE COUNSELOR’S WAITING ROOM
- Bettie Sellers The terra cotta girl with big flat farm feet traces furrows in the rug with her toes, reads an existentialist paperback from psychology class, finds no ease there from the guilt of loving the quiet girl down the hall. Their home soil has seen to this visit, their Baptist mothers, who weep for the waste of sturdy hips ripe for grandchildren. |
"The only safe thing is to take a chance" Elaine May
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"Who is the happier man: He who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? Hunter Thompson
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"In America, any boy can become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.......Adlai Stevenson
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It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Rebecca West
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"Some talk to you in their free time, and some free their time to talk to you."
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“The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land — all things born of the soul that can only be felt.”
― Anthony De Sa, Barnacle Love |
"He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived." |
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In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem...... George Carlin
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Reflections
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Growth...
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The Forest...
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"To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend a lifetime trying to learn and understand."
--Sylvia Plath |
“I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.” – John Green, Looking For Alaska |
“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.” – Toni Morrison, Beloved |
Learn yourself...
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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander |
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