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Promises are like babies…Fun to make but hell to deliver.
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The Summer~~Nizar Qabbani
In the summer
I stretch out on the shore And think of you Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me. Katniss~~ |
It does'nt matter if the glass is half empty or half full, there is clearly room for more wine.
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“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Money is to be respected. Never handle another persons money, without respect for how hard it was to earn it. -T Boone Pickens Jr
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself dishonest. - B Berkeley To him that watches, everything is revealed.- Italian proverb |
That's the thing about ephemera, isn't it?
Here then gone. Fleetingly of foot, afoot, Corner of the eye glimpsed, There then gone. Did you see her? Do you think you know her? A filamentary figment stealing your breath, Near then gone. Was she, were you ever really there? ~Fatale |
It Doesn't Matter To Me -Oriah Mountain Dreamer- (Native American Elder) It doesn't matter to me what you do for a living: I want to know what you ache for and if you dare of meeting your hearts' longing. It doesn't matter to me how old you are: I want to know if you would risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventures of being alive. It doesn't matter to me which planets are squaring with your moon: I want to know if you have touched the center of your sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain: -mine and your own- without moving to hide it, fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy: -mine and your own- if you can dance with wildness and ecstacy, fill the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful or to be realistic or to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't matter to me if the story you are telling me is true: I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself, if you can bear the causation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. I want to know if you can live with failure: -yours and mine- and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!" It doesn't matter to me where or what or with whom you have studied: I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. |
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.- Einstein
A kite only rises against the wind. - Hamilton Mable Patience has its limits. Taken too far and it's cowardice.- George Jackson |
One of the paradoxes of our time is that
we have more power at our disposal than ever before, and yet we seem more powerless than ever. Ralph W. Sockman (1953) |
The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.
Rabindranath Tagore |
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
-Ghandi- |
We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough. -Helen keller
Never never never never , give up. - Winston Churchill A single sunbeam drives away many shadows.- ST. Francis of Assisi |
“I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.”
- Anonymous “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” - John F. Kennedy “Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.” - Unknown |
Love is a force. . . . It is not a result;
it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it. Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
“Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien |
“Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game”
Will Durant |
Trouble comes to pass, not to stay. You can trust life to give you the courage that is required to do anything or face anything. Challenge comes to make you, not break you. ~ Iyanlan Vanzant
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You do not have to love what is going on in your life, but you must accept that it, whatever it is, is going on. As long as you do not accept reality, you are powerless to define the role you will play.
~Iyanlan Vanzant |
Reason and Passion BY Khalil Gibran And the priestess spoke again and said: "Speak to us of Reason and Passion." And he answered saying: Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements? Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or our rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even as you would two loved guests in your house. Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both. Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion." And since you are a breath In God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion. |
Faith sees God
Intellect does not |
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