I said: what about my eyes?
God said: Keep them on the road.
I said: what about my passion?
God said: Keep it burning.
I said: what about my heart?
God said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
I said: pain and sorrow?
He said: ..stay with it.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

~ Rumi

The angels can see the positive results of your prayers, and they want you to have patience and stay optimistic while the final details are being worked out in Heaven. This is an urgent call from the angels to “keep the faith”!

- Doreen Virtue

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
--Henry David Thoreau

“I don't care where I come, or what has happened in the past. We make each other happy. We could have a happily ever after.”― Amanda Hocking

“I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for two reasons. Either they are crazy, or trying to forget.” ― Nicholas Sparks

“Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear” ― Bon Jovi

Blue Van Meer, Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
 

Implacable self-possession can be attained by all, not by pretending to look absorbed in what's clearly a blank spiral notebook;
not by trying to convince yourself you're an undiscovered rock star, movie star, top model, tycoon, Bond, Bond Girl, Queen Elizabeth,
Elizabeth Bennett or Eliza Doolittle at the Ambassador's Ball;
not by imagining you're a long lost member of the Vanderbilt family, nor by tilting up your chin fifteen to forty-five degrees and pretending to be Grace Kelly in her prime.
These methods work in theory, but in practice they slip away, so one is left hideously naked with nothing but the stained sheet of self-confidence around one's feet.

Instead, stately dignity can be possessed by all, in two ways:

1. Diverting the mind with a book or play.
2. Reciting Keats.

Aww, the poor thing...
 

"I wore this hot bralet with lots of straps in the back for my girlfriend's birthday, thinking she'd be pumped. But she couldn't figure out how to get it off, and instead, she got all flustered and asked, "What is this, like a chastity bra?"

~Brittany

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
--Henry David Thoreau

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII

Thinking about Mother Teresa today...
 

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
~Mother Teresa

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
~Mother Teresa


The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
~Mother Teresa

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”― Napoleon Hill


“Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. And learn from them, so you don't make the same one twice. ” ― Steve Maraboli

" Get even with people...but not those who have hurt you, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped you.”
― Steve Maraboli

Love itself describes its own perfection.
Be speechless and listen.

Rumi

Stop holding onto the past. Release your regrets about whatever you may have done or failed to do that turned out poorly. Forgive others for whatever they may have done or failed to do that caused you harm. Declare today a new beginning. Let go of the past and move on with creating a joyful new future for yourself.


~Jonathan L. Huie

Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. -- Michael Pollan

The sort of bite only
hot water jaws give,
Stinging just the way
I like it,

Head thrown back
throat exposed,
wide mouth receives
searing sacrament

My skin’s sins
drained,

Ablution
absolution.


~Fatale