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"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie
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“Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.” - Sun Tzu |
"What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder” - William Shakespeare |
“Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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The Collected Poems (1988) New York, NY: The Echo Press. How it Was Stalking a deer I wandered into the mountains and from there I saw. Or perhaps it was for some other reason that I rose about the setting sun. Above the hills of blackwood and a slab of ocean and the steps of a glacier, carmine-colored in the dusk. I saw absence; the mighty power of counter-fulfillment; the penalty of a promise lost forever. If, in tepees of plywood, tire shreds, and grimy sheet iron, ancient inhabitants of this land shook their rattles, it was all in vain. No eagle-creator circled in the air from which the thunderbolt of its glory had been cast out. Protective spirits hid themselves in subterranean beds of bubbling ore, jolting the surface from time to time so that the fabric of freeways was bursting asunder. God the Father didn't walk about any longer tending the new shoots of cedar, no longer did man hear his rushing spirit. His son did not know his sonship and turned his eyes away when passing a neon cross flat as a movie screen showing a striptease. This time it was really the end of the Old and New Testament. No one implored, everyone picked up a nodule of agate or diorite to whisper in loneliness; I cannot live any longer. Bearded messengers in bead necklaces founded clandestine communes in imperial cities and ports overseas. But none of them announced the birth of a child-savior. Soldiers from expeditions sent to punish nations would go disguised and masked to take part in forbidden rites, not looking for any hope. They inhaled smoke soothing all memory and, rocking from side to side, shared with each other a word of nameless union. Carved in black wood the Wheel of Eternal Return stood before the tents of wandering monastic orders. And those who longed for the Kingdom took refuge like me in the mountains to become the last heirs of a dishonored myth. Czeslaw Milosz (1968) |
Karen Walker
Desperate times call for desperate measures. It´s time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air! |
George!
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam. :glasses: George Carlin Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. George Carlin There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. George Carlin :byebye::byebye: |
Cool is effortless. Cool is soulful, an inner peace and calm within that’s radiated outward. Cool isn’t afraid to say or do anything. The uncool is. Cool is magnetic.
Cool is… (who wants to step up to the mic?) from Mark VV |
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
-Oscar Wilde |
By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release
and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life. Gary Zukav |
Mindfulness of oneself cultivates wisdom. Mindfulness of others cultivates compassion. Stonepeace |
Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated,
means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on. Nell Newman |
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
Ambrose Redmoon |
I love this poem and wanted to share it.
The Forgiveness Parade There's nothing like a full moon reflected in the eyes of a blind man using a telescope to stir a bowl of Russian alphabet soup for the cosmonauts who orbited the shadow of Jupiter and are landing in an ocean of tears shed by cold blooded murderers who miss their mothers convulsively in their prison cells being wheeled caravan-style down Oswald Boulevard as part of the Forgiveness Parade where relatives of the victims stand quietly holding banners like 'Apology Accepted' as the vandals stumble past in shackles followed by the hijackers and the pickpockets who march single file up the fire escape of a skyscraper built by arsonists. Jeffrey McDaniel |
“Comedy is acting out optimism.”
Robin Williams |
“Everything happens for a reason. Every action has a reaction. Always remember that whats meant to be will always find a way to come about." - Author Unknown |
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.” - Jim Morrison |
“Some roads aren't meant to be travelled alone” - Proverb |
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
~Will Rogers |
I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
~Ralph Steadman |
"We are where our thoughts are; be sure your thoughts are where you want to be."
-Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav |
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Lao Tzu "I love you - those three words have my life in them." - by Alexandrea to Nicholas III "The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return." - From "Unforgettable with Love" by Natalie Cole "My love for you is a journey; Starting at forever, And ending at never." - anonymous quotation "All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love." - Marquis de Lafayette "She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes." - Byron :stillheart: :bunchflowers: :love1: |
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
~Jean Houston |
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love, ~ Washington Irving
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Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.
It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them. Thomas Kinkade |
Live a balanced life--learn some and
think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Robert Fulghum |
The Amish love the Sunshine and Shadow quilt pattern. It shows
two sides--the dark and light, spirit and form--and the challenge of bringing the two into a larger unity. It's not a choice between extremes: conformity or freedom, discipline or imagination, acceptance or doubt, humility or a raging ego. It's a balancing act that includes opposites. Sue Bender |
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition,
there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. Dale E. Turner |
If one dream should fall and break into a
thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. Flavia Weedn |
“Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.” - Author Unknown |
“I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.” - Rita Mero |
“I can't control my destiny, I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love or live in fear. No other path, no other way. No day but today.” - Johnathan Larson (Rent) |
“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.” - Mark Twain |
"When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.” - Author Unknown |
“I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, ''I've had it! I know I'm much more than I'm demonstrating mentally, emotionally, and physically in my life'.' I made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less than I can be.” - Anthony Robbins |
Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything. Creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild.
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It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
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There shouldn't be levels of honesty. Just honesty.
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"Of what value is sense, if it does not come to my rescue before I utter a word? In spite of whatever wisdom we may have, it is of little value if we have no control over our words. Those who talk much have less power than those who talk little." Hazrat Khan sufi master
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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
~ Albert Einstein |
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