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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together." - Barbara De Angelis |
“Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist” - Marquis De Sade |
“We are born and reborn countless number of times, and it is possible that each being has been our parent at one time or another. Therefore, it is likely that all beings in this universe have familial connections.” - Dalai Lama |
I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
~Frida Kahlo |
I love Maya!
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
~Maya Angelou |
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
~Buddha |
“I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.”
- Mae West |
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~ Og Mandino
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God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, courage to change the people I can and the wisdom to know that person is me.
~ words of wisdom stolen from a friend's facebook page! |
"I don't want to live in a culture of despair - I'd like to live in a culture of hope," ~ Natalie Merchant
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~ Howard Thurman
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ~Joan Didion . |
"If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face.
My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am." — Alice Hoffman (Incantation) |
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
--Virginia Woolf |
"...we Irish come through the door fists and hearts first."
- Bruce Springsteen |
a few years ago I wrote this poem for a dear friend. It is very special to me.
Asian Pears Your story was this: you were happy then you were sad. You slept, You awakened... Sometimes you ate persimmons. At times you spoke, at other times you were silent. What could you say? mostly it seems you were silent. Actions were taken or not- It doesn't matter what they will make of you. Of your days... they will be wrong. They will never speak of the little girl propelled into womanhood. All the stories they tell will be of their own bromidic invention. You were happy, then you were sad. Sometimes you ate asian pears. |
"Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time.
Write yourself. Your body must be heard." — Hélène Cixous |
Esse
I looked at that face, dumbfounded. The lights of métro stations flew by; I didn't notice them. What can be done, if our sight lacks absolute power to devour objects ecstatically, in an instant, leaving nothing more than the void of an ideal form, a sign like a hieroglyph simplified from the drawing of an animal or bird? A slightly snub nose, a high brow with sleekly brushed-back hair, the line of the chin - but why isn't the power of sight absolute? - and in a whiteness tinged with pink two sculpted holes, containing a dark, lustrous lava. To absorb that face but to have it simultaneously against the background of all spring boughs, walls, waves, in its weeping, its laughter, moving it back fifteen years, or ahead thirty. To have. It is not even a desire. Like a butterfly, a fish, the stem of a plant, only more mysterious. And so it befell me that after so many attempts at naming the world, I am able only to repeat, harping on one string, the highest, the unique avowal beyond which no power can attain: I am, she is. Shout, blow the trumpets, make thousands-strong marches, leap, rend your clothing, repeating only: is! She got out at Raspail. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things: A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees. (1954) ~ Czeslaw Milosz: The Collected Poems 1931-1987 Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Pinsky Copyright © Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Pinsky (1988) |
For the Austin crew at Threadgill's this evening!
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
~Elisabeth Foley |
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Here's another! <smile> Can You tell I spent time with good friends today?
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
~Author Unknown |
I can find a lot of women willing to ride in the town car with me. I long to find a woman who is willing ride the bus with me.
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Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.
~Alexander King |
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.
~Dinah Mulock |
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Dale Carnegie |
Mercy is twice blessed
The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ~ William Shakespeare ~ |
"Más rápido cae un mentiroso que un cojo."
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"The only things that will get a married man laid that won't get a single
man laid are adultery and whores. Intelligence and humor (and your smell) are what get you laid. That's what got you laid when you were single. That's what gets you laid when you're married. Everything still works in marriage: especially intelligence and humor. Because the sexiest thing is to know you." - Christina Hendricks |
Correcto.
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“To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.” -- e.e. cummings
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What's the difference between unique and very unique? We put in our two cents, but only get a penny for our thoughts. What happens to the extra penny? Don't make me explain the jokes. Mark Giles Writing is easy. Life is hard. Neil LaBute :rrose: |
Our Flag by Mary Howliston
There are many flags in many lands, There are flags of every hue; But there is no flag, however grand, Like our own Red, White and Blue. :usa: |
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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there are worse things
than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late — Charles Bukowski |
Bukowski fan in the house (me). Awesome quote!
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Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage--the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life;
to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. Howard Cosell |
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung |
To exist is to change, to change is to mature,
to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Berson |
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take
total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up. John Maxwell |
Strength is a product of struggle.
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