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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette
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Quotes by Morrie Schwartz
Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
Without love, we are birds with broken wings. Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone. Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially yourself. :candle::candle::candle: |
because I love Mary Oliver and heed her messages. . .
The Journey
By Mary Oliver One day you finally knew What you had to do, and began, Though the voices around you Kept shouting Their bad advice— Though the whole house Began to tremble And you felt the old tug At your ankles. "Mend my life!” Each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do Though the wind pried With its stiff fingers At the very foundations Though their melancholy Was terrible. It was already late Enough, and a wild night, And the road full of fallen Branches and stones. But little by little As you left their voices behind, The stars began to burn Through the sheets of clouds, And there was a new voice Which you slowly recognized as you own, That kept you company As you strode deeper and deeper Into the world, Determined to do The only thing you could do--- Determined to save The only life that you could save. |
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." ~ John Wooden 1910 -2010 |
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.
~ Sophia Loren |
When considering praise or criticism first consider the source.
~Jeff Daly |
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
~Winston Churchill |
"At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ~
Maya Angelou |
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. ~ Maya Angelou
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A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~ Hugh Sidey
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
~Vera Wang |
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come." ~Joseph Campbell |
When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb |
I'm just trying to change the color of your mood ring...
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Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something. They're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. - Anthony Robbins
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If I would have been a ranch, they would have named me 'the bar nothing.' –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– —Rita Hayworth, Gilda |
A Soft Indentation ~ Chrystos
in my body where yours slept around me like the gold grass hollow deer leave in the morning meadow or the curve of a white rib beached on the rocks I carried back to admire along the path to my door A tenderness is yours I feel for the mountain which centers my life We are wary of old words used to describe these circles We awaken at dawn leave each other dreaming slip into the wild edge where reason fails your branches shelter mine flower |
another poem from Chrystos....
I Like a Woman Who Packs
not because she wants to be a man because she knows I want a butch who can loop my wrist with leather, whisper Stay right here I have something I need to do to you who can smile wide when I ask her to dance because I've noticed the bulge in her pants Tells me to come back for a slow number because she doesn't do fast I like a woman who'll make me beg her for it Ride me till I forget my name, the date the president, prime minister & every head of state I like to sashay down the street a bit with her watching my legs & breasts & ass while I watch her hands & mouth & the neighbors gasp I like a woman who can make me over into whatever she wants as long as she wants I like a woman who can make me over into whatever she wants as long as she wants wet & hungry to my heart I like it when she grabs my hair says Don't move until I tell you I like a woman who packs stands behind me in a crowded room leaning into my back whispers in my ear Hey you wanna give it up to me? I like her tall or short heavy or slim walking or riding a chair brown or pink old or young I like a woman who can take me under wen she takes me over then let me suck her, get in trouble, snap her gloves I like a woman who wants to be the best fuck I've ever had I like a woman who snacks |
When we are together I stay awake all night When I'm on my own I cannot sleep Blessed be God for these two insomnias And the difference between them. Rumi Love is a moment that lasts forever... Julie Wittey L'amor chi move il sole e l'altre stelle. [Love that moves the sun and the other stars]. Dante Will you still love me when I'm sixty-four? Paul McCartney In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. Janos Arany You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences." Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune What the world needs now, Is love, Sweet love. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. Unknown When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix Once I dropped a tear in the ocean. When I find it is when I'll stop loving you. Anonymous Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao-Tzu A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. Latin proverb To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Karen Sunde :stillheart: :bunchflowers: :love1: |
Because I adore The Far Side (comics) by Gary Larson!
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I've seen this posted before, but just some thoughts to carry this soul:
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 I can't control another. To let go is not to enable, but allow learning from natural consequences. 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 destinies. To let go is not to be protective, it's to permit another to face reality. 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 criticize or regulate anybody, but to try to become what I dream I can be. To let go is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future. |
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked”
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May you always have work for your hands to do May your pockets hold always a coin or two May the sun shine bright on your windowpane May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain May the hand of a friend always be near you May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you |
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. - Sally Koch
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from On the Beach ~ George Amabile
Night, on a blanket
that smells faintly of dog we shed our clothes and lie in our skins, breathing. The taste of your mouth is the first moment home after a journey. When I close my eyes, the stars approach, opening filmy auroras pink, yelow, and blue like first thoughts of the sky imagining you. |
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
- Marian Wright Edelman |
If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up space. ~ Flo Kennedy
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"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." ~Henry Ward Beecher |
"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, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com |
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893 |
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. ~Thomas á Kempis . |
I love this!
A smile confuses an approaching frown.
~Author Unknown |
Greatest movie quotes according to the American Film Institute "Oh-oh-oh, sweet mystery of life - at last I found you!" "Mama says stupid is as stupid does." "I am, George. I am." "Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings." "Mr. Rusk, you're not wearing your tie." "Throw that junk." "Strike me pink!" - "I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Did you run off with a senator's wife? I like to think that you killed a man. It's the romantic in me." - "It's a combination of all three." - "What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?" - "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters." - "The waters? What waters? We're in the desert." - "I was misinformed." "We all go a little mad sometimes... Haven't you?" - "I used to hate the water." - "I can't imagine why." "I wish I knew how to quit you." "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die." "I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." "Well, I believe in the soul, the c--k, the p---y, the small of a woman's back, the hangin' curveball, high fiber, good Scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent crap...I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days." "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought." "Sing out, men. We open at Leavenworth on Saturday night." - "Surely you can't be serious." - "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." "What the hell happened?" " Oh! You cursed brat. Look what you've done. I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness." "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner." "If you build it, he will come." "But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle - built - for - two." "They're heee-re." "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto." "I do not like the panties drying on the rod." "A thing worth having is worth cheating for." "I am not an animal! I am a human being." "Good. For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble." "Snakes. Why'd it hafta be snakes?" "Well, a boy's best friend is his mother." "We'll always have Paris." "Food fight!" AND "Toga! Toga!" "I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all." "Is it safe?" "Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." AND "I love it. God help me, I do love it so. I love it more than my life." - "You know what they call a - a - a Quarter Pounder with cheese in Paris?" - "They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?" - "No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the f--k a Quarter Pounder is." - "Then what do they call it?" - "They call it a 'Royale' with cheese." - "A 'Royale' with cheese!...What do they call a Big Mac?" - "A Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it 'Le Big Mac.'" - "'Le Big Mac!' What do they call a 'Whopper'?" - "I dunno, I didn't go into Burger King." "Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever." "That's mighty brave talk for a one-eyed fat man." "Well sir, goin' 'ome...'Ome, sir." "You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey, that's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon." "That's what makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But we keep a-comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. And we'll go on forever, Pa... 'cause... we're the people." "Houston - we have a problem." "Shaken, not stirred." "I can stand anything but pain." "Never be jealous again. Never doubt that I love you more than the world. More than myself." "Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!" - "And after you shot him, how did you feel then?" - "Hungry." "Aaaaawl-right-y-then." "Sanctuary!" " I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!" "But it's straight down the line for both of us." "I'll live to see you - all of ya - hanging from the highest yardarm in the British fleet!" "I'm NOT gonna be ignored, Dan." "Will you bring me five more martinis, Leo? And line them right up here." "When you give up your dreams, you die." "For the woman - the kiss, for the man - the sword." "Jungle Red." "You should be kissed - and often, and by someone who knows how." "Magic Mirror on the Wall, Who is the fairest one of all?" "I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be." "That's, uh, quite a dress you almost have on." "Well, I'll wear the darn clothes if you want me to - if-if you'll just, just like me." "Goooood morning, Vietnam!" "Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind." "Roads? Where we're going we don't need - roads." "Only my friends call me wop." "I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating." "Turn to the ri-i-ght." "He's got a real purty mouth, ain't he?" "I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it." - "Steady boy. Just keep telling yourself you're a girl." - "I'm a girl...I'm a girl...I'm a girl." "Get your stinkin' paws off me, you damn dirty ape!" "Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself: 'This is the best I'm ever going to look, the best I'm ever going to feel, the best I'm ever going to do,' and it ain't that great?" "Frau Bleucher." (followed by the whinnying and neighing of horses) "No patty fingers, if you please. The proprieties at all times." "I didn't recognize you. You should lay off those candy bars...You're a mess, honey." "I'm such a fool, such an old fool. These are only tears of gratitude - an old maid's gratitude for the crumbs offered...You see, no one ever called me darling before." "Well, if you get a good break, you'll be out of Tehachapi in 20 years and you can come back to me then. I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck...Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you." - "I'm in love with you." - "Snap out of it!" "It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It's a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known." "They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God." "Except for a single, very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter the four million year old black monolith has remained completely inert, its origin and purpose still a total mystery." "Kid - the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia." "Hello, gorgeous." "Hitler was better looking than Churchill, he was a better dresser than Churchill, he had more hair, he told funnier jokes, and he could dance the pants off of Churchill." "She cut off her nipples with garden shears. You call that normal?" "You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked, and I'm gonna stay right here and fight for this lost cause even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place." "I never drink wi-i-ine." "Put me in your pocket, Mike." "What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." "Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight!" "Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time." "The only question I ever ask any woman is: 'What time is your husband coming home?'" "Feed me! Feed me!" "I forgot my mantra." "Yo, Adrian!" "Ah, then it's a gift." "One Rocco, more or less, isn't worth dying for." "Your general appearance is not distasteful." "They abide and they endure." "I like to watch (TV)." "And her daughter, Gypsy." "You're a very nosy fellow, kitty-cat, huh? You know what happens to nosy fellows? Huh, no? Want to guess? Huh, no? OK. They lose their noses." "You've nothing to stay for. You've nothing to live for really, have you? Look down there. It's easy, isn't it? Why don't you? Why don't you? Go on. Go on. Don't be afraid!" "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" "Want me to do your hair? "Oh, Frank, my lips are hot. Kiss my hot lips." "Attica! Attica!" "Now what's all this crud about no movie tonight?" "Your mother's in here with us, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it." "This is not only a war of soldiers in uniform. It is a war of the people - of all the people - and it must be fought not only on the battlefield but in the cities and in the villages, in the factories and on the farms, in the home and in the heart of every man, woman and child who loves freedom...This is the people's war. It is our war. We are the fighters. Fight it, then. Fight it with all that is in us, and may God defend the right." - "Overtaxed, overworked and paid off with a knife, a club or a rope." - "Why, you speak treason." - "Fluently." "If I were not mad, I could have helped you. Whatever you had done, I could have pitied and protected you. But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart!" "Because when you're a call girl, you control it, that's why. Because someone wants you...and for an hour...I'm the best actress in the world." "Wendy, darling. Light of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya... I'm just gonna bash your brains in." "O-Lan, you are the earth." "You always said you could shoot. I never believed ya." "People all say that I've had a bad break, but today - today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth." "But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom. Case dismissed." "Shapeley's the name - and that's the way I like 'em!" "Say hello to my little friend." "I ain't so tough." "And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death." "It was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost." "I know you are, but what am I? "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!" "Only one thing counts in this life: Get them to sign on the line which is dotted...A. Always. B. Be. C. Closing. Always Be Closing." "I killed you. Haunt me then. Haunt your murderer. I know that ghosts have wandered on the Earth. Be with me always. Take any form. Drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this dark alone where I cannot find you. I cannot live without my life. I cannot die without my soul." "What do they think I am, dumb or something? Why I make more money than Calvin Coolidge put together." "I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?" "Oh, and Senator, just one more thing. Love your suit!" "Look, you shoot off a guy's head with his pants down, believe me, Texas is not the place you want to get caught." "I don't know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?" "First the hunt, then the revels!" "Now, she lies in 1,500 fathoms. And with her, more than half our shipmates. If they had to die, what a grand way to go! For now they lie all together with the ship we loved and they're in very good company. We've lost her, but they're still with her." "I am Mata Hari, my own master." - "I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth or eleven years in Twelveworth." - "I tell you what I'll do. I'll take five and ten in Woolworth." "Oh, oh, I've got a helmet. I've got a beauty." Link for the films that featured this quotes. http://www.filmsite.org/moments000.html |
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” - Thich Nhat Hanh |
“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.” - Thich Nhat Hanh |
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