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“I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.” - Author Unknown |
“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.” - D.H. Lawrence |
"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it." - Voltaire |
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus
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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. Mark Twain |
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ~Sally Field
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People often say that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. ~ Salma Hayek
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image(f)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
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my life truth
remember.........
we are all made of meat. :canoworms: |
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.(f)
Karen Casey |
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. ~ Robert Hutchins |
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, or even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. ~Mark Twain |
"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."
~Oprah Winfrey |
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?
~Annita Manning |
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” - Morrie Schwartz |
“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.” - James Earl Jones |
“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” - Johnny Depp |
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!
~James Beard |
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia . |
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. - George Santayana |
Let no one nor no thing spoil a beautiful day, a wonderful moment or a peaceful life... for surely it is those things that make living worthwhile. ~ C. Daughtery
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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together." -Bette Davis
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“No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.” Gail Sheehy
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"That is classic enigmatic!" ~ The Doctor
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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
-Edith Wharton |
"There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope." ~Edgar Howe |
"Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all." ~Emily Dickinson |
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way." — Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor) |
The truth of the matter is that you always
know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make
the best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy. Jennie Jerome Churchill |
There is no evil in the universe which is not the result of ignorance,
and which would not, if we were ready and willing to learn its lesson, lead us to a higher wisdom, and then vanish away. James Allen |
Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your
growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes of one increasing, dynamic purpose. There are the lights and shadows that make your life deep and strong. There are the little touches that add the stamp of character and worth. The art of achievement is the art of making life--your life--a masterpiece. Wilferd A. Peterson |
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are,
what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish. John Jakes |
Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned
to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else. Don Miguel Ruiz |
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck |
Lesson learned
“Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.”
Friedrich Nietzsche |
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts. Peter Block |
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