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You can't keep a good man down.(?)

If a flower blooms once, it goes on blooming somewhere forever. It blooms on for whoever has seen it blooming.

—Sounder, William H. Armstrong, 1969

Quote:

[Stuart realizes who he's dealing with]
Col. Stuart: Oh, McClane. John McClane. The policeman hero who saved the Nakatomi hostages. I read about you in People Magazine. You seemed a bit out of your league on Nightline, I thought.
John McClane: Hey, Colonel. Blow me! How much drug money is Esperanza paying you to turn traitor?
Col. Stuart: I think Cardinal Richilieu said it best. 'Treason is merely a matter of dates'. This country's got to learn that it can't keep cutting the legs off of men like General Esperanza. Men who have the guts to stand up against Communist aggression.
John McClane: And Lesson #1 starts with killing policemen. What's Lesson #2, the neutron bomb?
Col. Stuart: No. I think we can find something in between. Watch this...
[after Col. Stuart caused a plane to crash]
John McClane: [crying] Mother fucker.
[after triggering an airplane crash; into the radio]
Col. Stuart: That concludes our object lesson for this evening. If the 747 we requested is ready on time and General Esperanza's plane arrives unmolested, further lessons can be avoided. Out.

& of course

Quote:

John McClane: That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me. You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. Dosen't show up on your airport X-ray machines, here, and it cost more than you make in a month.
Carmine Lorenzo: Hey! You'd be a surprised what I make in a month.
John McClane: If it's more than a dollar ninety-eight I'd be very surprised. Hey, Carmine, let me ask you something. What sets off the metal detectors first? The lead in your ass or the shit in your brains?
[under his breath]
John McClane: Fat fuck.

Children wish to be adults, and adults long to be children, it’s a question of being carefree but dependent, or careworn and independent. Satisfaction lies in settling on the spot where the two paths cross.

Thomas Merton (b. 1915 - d. 1968), born in France, a trappist monk of the Abbey of Gesthamani in Kentucky, was an American Catholic writer, poet, social activist and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained into the priesthood and given the name Father Louis. (Link for further info)

Not only am I a huge fan of Czeslaw Milosz, but I'm a huge fan of Thomas Merton... I wanted to leave a few of his quotes here this morning and a poem, too.

Quotes:

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Peace demands themost herioc labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to someonebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Thomas Merton's Marian Poetry:

Evening: Zer0 Weather (1947)

Now the lone world is streaky as a wall of marble
With viens of clear and frozen snow.
There is no bird song there, no hare's track
No badger working in the russet grass:
All the bare fields are silent as eternity.

And the whole herd is home in the long barn.
The brothers come, with hoods about their faces,
Following their plumes of breath
Lugging the gleaming buckets one by one.

This was a day when shovels would have struck
Full flakes of fire ut of the land like rock:
And ground cries like iron beneath our boots.

When all monks come in with eyes as clean as the cold sky
And axes under their arms,
Still paying out Ave Maria's
With rosaries between their bleeding fingers.

We shake the chips out of our robes outside the door
And go hide in cowls as deep as the clouds,
Bowing our shoulders in the church's shadow, lean and whipped,
To wait upon your vespers, MOther of God!

And we have eyes no more for the dark pillars or the freezing windows,
Ears for the rumorous cloister or the chimes of time above our heads:
For we are sunken in the summer of our adoration,
And plunge, down, down into the fathoms of our secret joy
That swims with indefinable fire.

And we will never see the copper sunset
Linger a moment, like an echo, on the frozen hill
Then suddenly we die an hour before the Angelus.

For we have found our Christ, our August
Here in the zer0 days before Lent -
We are already binding up our sheaves of harvest
Beating the lazy liturgy, going up with exultation
Even on the eve of our Ash Wednesday,
And entering our blazing heaven by the doors of the Assumption!

"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"

Lily Tomlin

I see before me the Gladiator lie:
He leans upon his hand - his manly brow
Consents to death, but conquers agony.

- Lord Byron

Food for thought.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. - Margaret Thatcher

Overheard in conversation...

From one preteen to another, "A sports bra is like a hug. A very tight hug!"

LOL

The art of relationship is all in appreciation

Quote:

Joe Black: I don't care Bill. I love her.
William Parrish: How perfect for you - to take whatever you want because it pleases you. That's not love.
Joe Black: Then what is it?
William Parrish: Some aimless infatuation which, for the moment, you feel like indulging - it's missing everything that matters.
Joe Black: Which is what?
William Parrish: Trust, responsibility, taking the weight for your choices and feelings, and spending the rest of your life living up to them. And above all, not hurting the object of your love.
Joe Black: So that's what love is according to William Parrish?
William Parrish: Multiply it by infinity, and take it to the depth of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.
Joe Black:[in protest] Those were my words.
William Parrish: They're mine now!

long movie, good content...

"there is still somewhere deep within you a beast shouting that the earth is exactly what it wanted--each pond with it's blazing lilies is a prayer heard and answered lavishly, each morning, whether or not you have ever dared to be happy, whether or not you have ever dared to pray."

-Mary Oliver, Morning Poem

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

—The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937

making a call, mailing a card

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
~Marian Wright-Edelman

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

--French Proverb

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

:blueheels:

Paranoia is having all the facts - William Burroughs

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth - Albert Einstein

Words of wisdom from a friend's facebook page today...

Love all that you can, give all that you have, smile away your days, and dream away your nights.

Always keep your face toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

~Walt Whitman

“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.” - Lord Byron

“Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.” - Jerome K. Jerome

"Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life” - Ella Wheeler

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

:flyaway:

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. -- Thorton Wilder

"Nobody sees a flower, really--it is so small we haven't time, and to see takes time." - Georgia O'Keefe

Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.” -- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

Oscar Wilde

“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” - Keri Russell

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles

“Change is the essence of life.Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.” - Author Unknown

If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way.

-Lynda Barry

A real man doesn't love a million girls, he loves one girl in a million ways.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

An egg, because it contains life, is the most perfect thing there is. It is beautiful and mysterious.

—The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White, 1970

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington

Quote:

Originally Posted by PinkieLee (Post 113799)

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

*AMEN* Pinkie!!!!!

My quote today comes from a Communications professor (in my past undergrad years):

"Go forth and use every heartbeat wisely," ~ Dr. Alena Ruggerio

When we perform an act mindfully--be it meditating, vacuuming or playing Scrabble
with a child--we nourish ourselves, as well. Rather than scattering our concentration
on a dozen things at once, we focus. We slow down. We give ourselves time to calm
down from the inside out and the luxury of saying: Nothing is more important right
now than this moment, this deed. We may not get as much done by day's end, but
we can feel more peaceful and satisfied with the work itself. That's a good way
to think of it: Mindfulness is quality time for the soul.
Shana Aborn

Mindfulness means
paying attention
in a particular way;
on purpose,
in the present moment,
and nonjudgmentally.

Jon Kabat-Zinn