Robinson Jeffers - "Natural Music"
 

The old voice of the ocean, the bird-chatter of little rivers,
(Winter has given them gold for silver
To stain their water and bladed green for brown to line their banks)
From different throats intone one language.
So I believe if we were strong enough to listen without
Divisions of desire and terror
To the storm of the sick nations, the rage of the hunger smitten cities,
Those voices also would be found
Clean as a child's; or like some girl's breathing who dances alone
By the ocean-shore, dreaming of lovers.

there is no love that lasts forever. everything ends. all relationships should begin with the understanding that love will eventually be lost for some reason. death, at least, comes to us all. the memory of love might last forever but love itself always comes and goes. losing love is the only way we seem to learn to comprehend its worth.


pema chodron

"Some cause happiness where ever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- Michel de Montaigne

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that is gone.
- William Shakespeare

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Emerson

(probably already done here but if so I missed it...)


Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.

Let him that would move the world , first move himself. - Socrates


Ingratitude is the daughter of every vice. - French Proverb


Fortune sides with he who dares.- Virgil

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
 

Simone de Beauvoir was a writer on feminism and existentialism. She also wrote novels. Her book "The Second Sex" is a feminist classic. It is based on the idea that, while men and women may have different tendencies, each person is unique, and it is culture which has enforced a uniform set of expectations of what is "feminine," as contrasted to what is "human" which is equated with what is male. Beauvoir argued that women can free themselves, through individual decisions and collective action.

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• This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

• Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

• Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

• When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

• All oppression creates a state of war.

• However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

R.I.P Our Dear Lizzie 8-25-2012 R.I.P Sweet Emma 8-27-2012
 

Okay, we didn't work, and all
memories to tell you the truth aren't good.
But sometimes there were good times.
Love was good. I loved your crooked sleep
beside me and never dreamed afraid.

There should be stars for great wars
like ours.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
- Norman Mailer

I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.
― Ashly Lorenzana

People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
- Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

For you
 

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
― Margaret Atwood

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
― Jeffrey McDaniel

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
― Emily Brontë

I want hym to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb hym and walk around for the rest of my days with hym encased in my skin.

I want.
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

Even when I was young I suspected that much might be done in a better way.- Henry Ford Sr.

Trust instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness consists of loving people more than they deserve.- Joseph Joubert

MAKE THIS A POSITIVE DAY

"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words
Keep your words positive because you words become your behavior
Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny."

~Gandhi (f)

"Whatever happens to you, don’t fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can’t see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path. Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want."

Shams Tabrizi

If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.- Winston Churchill

Laziness is often mistaken for patience. - French proverb


A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‎"Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future."

- Paulo Coelho, is a Brazilian lyricist, novelist, and author of 'The Alchemist'

'people who live in glass houses shouldnt throw stones or skimp on the curtains' - mae west

Love is a river, jump into it. ~ Rumi