Float like a butterfly;
Sting like a bee.

Cassius Clay ~>> Muhammed Ali

"Love the ones you love and serve them well..."

-- Ray LaMontagne (Crazy Dreamers)

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” -Robert A. Heinlein

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

neruda is the best...
 

If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.

one more...
 

Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda


I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving
but this, in which there is no I nor you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I sleep it is your eyes that close.

Butterflies are Free (1972)
 

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius~

A true friend is a work of heart.

The heart has it's reasons that reason does not know.

~Pascal

“A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.”

Richard Bach

“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.”
Richard Bach

Accepting mediocrity will wither the soul.- Unknown

There is no use in trying to help someone what so ever if they won't help themselves.- Andrew Carnegie


Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.- Henry Ford

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” -Joan Crawford

We can choose to be true to ourselves and risk the ridicule of others,
or choose to be false, and risk losing our self-respect.

truth.
 

Golden shackles are far worse than iron ones. - Mahatma Gandhi


Silence is powerful. -Unknown


A little spark kindles a great fire. -Italian proverb

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" (don't make assumptions on too narrow a base of evidence)

"Never write anything you wouldn't want your mother to read."



My mom used to say those quotes to me when I was growing up.

The first one, I still find a useful reminder.

The other one, not so much.