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“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” - Angela Monet |
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
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Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life.
Rob Brezsny |
Enjoy saying "no!" but don’t make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses...
Rob Brezsny |
for a New year
“Be a sweet melody in the great orchestration, instead of a discordant note.
The medicine this sick world needs is love. Hatred must be replaced by love, and fear by faith that love will prevail." ~Peace Pilgrim |
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. – J.D. Salinger |
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” Robert Heinlein
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"No matter what you wear...to me, you will always have diamonds on the soles of your shoes." Lover Avenged by J.R. Ward.
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with love
“It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.” -- George Bernard Shaw |
Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.
-Richard Brautigan |
"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."— Anne Frank
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"When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one." -Leonard Matlovich, a gay Vietnam Veteran (1943-1988)
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“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
Jim Morrison |
Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.
Optimus Prime Transformers 2 |
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know", Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter." ~ Lewis Carroll
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"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." ~Harold Wilson |
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." ~Anatole France |
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
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"We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.” - Sonia Johnson |
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe |
"The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears."
- James Allen |
…most of the time when we hear about “rights,” we understand them as pertaining to individuals, or when we argue for protection against discrimination, we argue as a group or a class. And in that language in that context, we have to present ourselves as bonded beings, distinct, recognizable, delineated, subjects before the law, a community defined by sameness. Indeed, we had better be able to use that language to secure legal protections and entitlements. But perhaps we make a mistake if we take the definitions of who we are, legally, to be adequate descriptions of what we are about. --Judith Butler, Undoing Gender |
"When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” - John M. Richardson, Jr. |
"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours" - Cesar Chavez |
"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. " ~ Henry Miller
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“Never frown, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.”
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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. - Confucius
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Quieten your mind.
Reflect. Watch. Nothing binds you. You are free. You are strong. ~Buddha |
"Conscience is a man's compass." -Vincent Van Gogh |
"Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter." -Brad Henry |
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. ~William Ernest Henley |
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. ~ Oscar Wilde
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If I had a star for every time you made me smile, I would hold in my hand the entire night sky.
Old Norwegian Proverb |
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye |
"We must not give only what we have; we must give what we are." - Cardinal Mercia
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“Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
"Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly, "one must also have freedom, sunshine, and a little flower." - Hans Christian Anderson
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"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
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Sometimes our hearts get tangled and our souls a little off-kilter. Friends and family can set us right and help guide us back to the light.
~Sera Christann |
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