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Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.--Carol Mosely-Braun
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The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
-Randy Pausch |
“Historically, photography has always been about manipulation,” Dunleavy says. “Even the smile is a form of manipulation, because it may mask the true feelings of the subject.”
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"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
- Friedrich Neitzsche |
Latin American proverb:
"Para sacar un clavo se necesita otro." Truer words were never spoken. :) |
I'm sorry, you must have mistaken me for someone else. My name is Anastasia Beaverhausen.
-Karen Walker |
Kindness does wonderful things to a face. --Dixie Doyle
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“Abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace."
~ Krishna |
Everyday is a new sky rising, a time of transformation and renewal. Everyday is a fresh chance to make your dreams happen. ~ Kitty Terin
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On Courage:
"Giving up security takes guts. Bohemians have the courage to reject mainstream society, to follow an ideal and forsake praise and security; to alienate family; to be, as Jack Kerouac put it, "yourself at whatever cost" (p. 22)"
~Laren Stover (2004 - New York: Bullfinch Press) "The Bohemian Manifesto: A Fieldguide to Living on the Edge." :moonstars: |
"This is love: To fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."
~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi |
more Rumi on love
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi |
"We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable." Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, translated by Stephen Mitchell
(and part of my horoscope from Rob Brezsny... Apparently somewhere in there there is a message for me this week. . . now if it could only smack me over the head. . . ) |
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"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."
Richard Bach |
Stolen from a friend's facebook page today...
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. ~ Audrey Hepburn
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It took me time, but I learned.
Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person, not only changed, but for the better.
Arthur Gordon |
If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were. Aldous Huxley |
There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world; it’s the beginning of a new life.
unattributed |
Even a spiritualist has to let go
Letting go doesn't mean we don't care. Letting go doesn't mean we shut down.
Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible--controlling that which we cannot--and instead, focus on what is possible--which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible. Melody Beattie |
On Letting Go author unknown To "let go" does not mean to stop caring. It means I can't do it for someone else. To "let go" is not to cut myself off. It's the realization that I can't control another. To "let go" is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands. To "let go" is not to try to change or blame another. It's to make the most of myself. To "let go" is not to care for, but to care about. To "let go" is not to fix, but to be supportive. To "let go" is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being. To "let go" is not to be in the middle, arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own destinies. To "let go" is not to deny, but to accept. To "let go" is not to nag, scold, or argue, but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them. To "let go" is not to adjust everything to my desires, but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it. To "let go" is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future. To "let go" is to fear less and to love more. |
" People come into your life for a reason; the negative people usually are there to teach you what you don't want to become, treat you how you don't want to be treated, and to show you what you don't deserve. Embrace them, let them teach you, and then let them go.":twitch::twitch:
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"Time, the devourer of all things." "A man is sorry to be honest for nothing." "A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward." Ovid |
“Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.” - Anthony Robbins |
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington |
"If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue." ~Alice Duer Miller |
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
-Sophia Loren |
"You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home." - Marcello Rubini, "La Dolce Vita"
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Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching law; Will you give me yourself?will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live? -from "Song of the Open Road" Walt Whitman "Leaves of Grass" sincerly hope you like it... Tuff |
two sets of ideas that help me so much - no matter what the type of situation might be:
Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go,
~ Len Santos Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars: You have to let go at some point in order to move forward, ~author unknown |
from another Italian classic
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- Madonna |
the difference between a true Friend and a fake one is the fake one puts the knife in your back and a real one takes it out and helps to heal the wound
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There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
~ Peyton Conway March |
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Always forgive your enemies-nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde |
Before you embark on a journey of revenge; dig two graves.
~Confucious |
I love long lengthy walks...especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.
~Noel Coward |
"Who cares,even the carebears don't care!!!!"
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At five in the afternoon.
It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A frail of lime ready prepared at five in the afternoon. The rest was death, and death alone. The wind carried away the cottonwool at five in the afternoon. And the oxide scattered crystal and nickel at five in the afternoon. Now the dove and the leopard wrestle at five in the afternoon. And a thigh with a desolated horn at five in the afternoon. The bass-string struck up at five in the afternoon. Arsenic bells and smoke at five in the afternoon. Groups of silence in the corners at five in the afternoon. And the bull alone with a high heart! At five in the afternoon. When the sweat of snow was coming at five in the afternoon, When the bull ring was covered in iodine, A coffin on wheels is his bed at five in the afternoon. Bones and flutes resound in his ears at five in the afternoon. Now the bull was bellowing through his forehead at five in the afternoon. The room was iridiscent with agony at five in the afternoon. In the distance the gangrene now comes at five in the afternoon. Horn of the lily through green groins at five in the afternoon. The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon. At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon! ~ Federico Garcia Lorca |
Empty cans make the most noise.
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even if you don't love me
aunque no me ames y no desees en tu boca mis pequeños senos muy suavemente... amanece . . . even if you don’t love me and don’t desire my small breasts in your mouth very softly... dawn comes. . . * * * * the collector I like waiting for you in the afternoon I love the perversion in your eyes Midnight at the bar Abandoning myself from Deep inside My favourite objects The soft pillow The highway to you The memory and your body . . . |
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind,” ~ Marcel Proust
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