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"Love is a seeking for a way of life; the way that cannot be followed alone; the resonance of all spiritual and physical things..." Ansel Adams
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"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life - music and cats." -Albert Schweitzer
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When I was a kid, my father had this dog that started to get all weak and sickly. He takes it to the vet, he examines it and says a maggot must have laid eggs in the dog's butt. The baby maggots have crawled up, now they've started to grow, and eventually they're gonna eat the dog alive from the inside. He says it should be put to sleep, because it's an old dog anyway. But father won't do it. He takes the dog home, he puts it on the bed, he reaches up into the dog, picking out the maggots with his finger, one by one. It takes him all night, but he gets every last one. That dog outlived my father. That's love, Sam.
-Maggie (Addicted to Love - 1997) |
"When the soulful life is being threatened, it is not only acceptable to draw the line and mean it, it is required." - Clarissa Pinkola Estes, from "Women Who Run with the Wolves"
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attitude of the strong." Gandhi "Without forgiveness, there is no future." Desmond Tutu "Sin is whatever obscures the soul." Andrew Gide |
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius
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The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.
~Chevy Chase |
If you act like a schmuck,
If you walk like a schmuck, If you talk like a schmuck, More than likely, you're a schmuck. ~Adapted by me |
“Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life - after that you cannot be deceived”
Zen Proverb |
"Whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in, forms a new pattern of thought within its creative mold, as whatever thought is held in the mind tends to take outward form in new creations." -Ernest Holmes
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"Do what makes you happy. Be with who makes you smile. Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live"
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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal
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People always ask me, "Were you funny as a child?" Well, no, I was an accountant.
-Ellen |
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius
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Creativity stands at the center of all education.
-Bruno Bettelheim |
True friends are like diamonds; precious but rare. Fake friends are like fall leaves; found everywhere.(f)
Anonymous |
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.(f)
Golda Meir |
"Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion." Muhammad Ali
"We’re in hell right now, gentlemen, believe me. And, we can stay here -- get the shit kicked out of us -- or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell one inch at a time. Now, I can’t do it for you. I’m too old. I look around. I see these young faces, and I think -- I mean -- I made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I, uh, I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who’s ever loved me. And lately, I can’t even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know, when you get old in life things get taken from you. I mean that's...part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life’s this game of inches. So is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small -- I mean one-half a step too late, or too early, and you don’t quite make it. One-half second too slow, too fast, you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch, because we know when we add up all those inches that’s gonna make the fuckin' difference between winning and losing! Between livin' and dyin'! I’ll tell you this: In any fight, it’s the guy who’s willing to die who’s gonna win that inch. And I know if I’m gonna have any life anymore, it’s because I’m still willin' to fight and die for that inch. Because that’s what livin' is! The six inches in front of your face!" Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday |
“It is not enough to conquer; one must also know how to seduce” "If Christians want us to believe in a Redeemer, let them act redeemed” ~Voltaire |
"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott
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"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." "Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana." Bill Gates |
You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
~Polish Proverb |
"Self-empowerment is learning to respect other people's music, but dance to your own tune as you master harmony within yourself." Doc Childre
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Any belief that creates fear or feelings of unworthiness is a lie! - Says ME
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If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb . |
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep.
-Salman Rushdie |
Dream Deferred What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Langston Hughes |
To The Whore Who Took My Poems some say we should keep personal remorse from the poem, stay abstract, and there is some reason in this, but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don't keep carbons and you have my paintings too, my best ones; its stifling: are you trying to crush me out like the rest of them? why didn't you take my money? they usually do from the sleeping drunken pants sick in the corner. next time take my left arm or a fifty but not my poems: I'm not Shakespeare but sometime simply there won't be any more, abstract or otherwise; there will always be money and whores and drunkards down to the last bomb, but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry. Charles Bukowski |
"Avoid the crazy train at all costs. The tickets are cheap but the ride is long and scary"
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Negative thinking will always lead to failure
and nervous prostration; but positive faith--positive thinking--will lead you towards happy, healthy, and abundant living. Albert E. Cliffe |
Positive thinking is not always the easiest course of action when confronting
difficulties. If, however, we can remain focused on keeping hope strong and not succumbing to negative influences, we will meet with success in dealing with anything life may throw in our path. Hiram Rogers Lloyd |
If he is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. -- Kahlil Gibran
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"Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past."
Anne Lamott "You can either practice being right or practice being kind." Anne Lamott |
“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.” “Cultivate your curves--they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.” ~ Mae West |
some favorites....
“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.” “I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.” ~ Pablo Neruda |
Deep experience is never peaceful.
~Henry James |
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
~Nhat Hanh |
Quote:
True, True, True! *amen* Thanks for this quote, ((((( DIVA )))))) |
Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.
~Terri Guillemets |
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