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"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time." - John Lubbock
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“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” - William James |
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” - Maryanne Williamson |
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” - Albert Pine |
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." ~ Plato
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There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
~Alexandre Dumas |
"Wimmins, Wimmins is the causin' of it all" :cigar2: |
One who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in Eternity's sunrise.
William Blake |
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."
Friedrich Nietzsche |
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity."
Plato |
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. -- George Bernard Shaw I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon! -- Author Unknown |
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning A hundred hearts would be too few To carry all my love for you. ~Author Unknown I've fallen in love many times... always with you. ~Author Unknown I love you like crazy, baby 'Cuz I'd go crazy without you. ~Pixie Foudre For twas not into my ear you whispered But into my heart Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul ~Judy Garland If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown "Multiply it by infinity, take it to the depths of forever and you'll still only have a glimpse of how much I love you." - Author Unknown "Why do I love you? Because you are and always have been my dream." - Author Unknown :stillheart: :bunchflowers: :love1: |
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein
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"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." — Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
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Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.(f)
Bo Bennett American, Businessman Quotes |
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.(f)
John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA |
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.(f)
Wilfred Peterson |
“Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves."
Dorothy Parker |
found an old syllabus from undergrad. It was a writing from a femenist view point. I always liked the poem...
the victims When Mother divorced you, we were glad. She took it and took it in silence, all those years and then kicked you out, suddenly, and her kids loved it. Then you were fired, and we grinned inside, the way people grinned when Nixon's helicopter lifted off the South Lawn for the last time. We were tickled to think of your office taken away, your secretaries taken away, your lunches with three double bourbons, your pencils, your reams of paper. Would they take your suits back, too, those dark carcasses hung in your closet, and the black noses of your shoes with their large pores? She had taught us to take it, to hate you and take it until we pricked with her for your annihilation, Father. Now I pass the bums in doorways, the white slugs of their bodies gleaming through slits in their suits of compressed silt, the stained flippers of their hands, the underwater fire of their eyes, ships gone down with the lanterns lit, and I wonder who took it and took it from them in silence until they had given it all away and had nothing left but this. Sharon Olds |
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore |
SELF WORTH
After a while you learn a subtle difference between holding a hand and changing a soul; And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t mean security; And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises; And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child; And you learn to build your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get to much; So plant your own garden and decorate your soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers; And learn that you really can endure,.. That you really are strong, and you really do have worth! - Shane Clark |
Because I adore poetry by Czeslaw Milosz
A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
Bees build around red liver, Ants build around black bone. It has begun: the tearing, the trampling on silks, It has begun: the breaking of glass, wood, copper, nickel, silver, foam Of gypsum, iron sheets, violin strings, trumpets, leaves, balls, crystals. Poof! Phosphorescent fire from yellow walls Engulfs animal and human hair. Bees build around the honeycomb of lungs, Ants build around white bone. Torn is paper, rubber, linen, leather, flax, Fiber, fabrics, cellulose, snakeskin, wire. The roof and the wall collapse in flame and heat seizes the foundations. Now there is only the earth, sandy, trodden down, With one leafless tree. Slowly, boring a tunnel, a guardian mole makes his way, With a small red lamp fastened to his forehead. He touches buried bodies, counts them, pushes on, He distinguishes human ashes by their luminous vapor, The ashes of each man by a different part of the spectrum. Bees build around a red trace. Ants build around the place left by my body. I am afraid, so afraid of the guardian mole. He has swollen eyelids, like a Patriarch Who has sat much in the light of candles Reading the great book of the species. What will I tell him, I, a Jew of the New Testament, Waiting two thousand years for the second coming of Jesus? My broken body will deliver me to his sight And he will count me among the helpers of death: The uncircumcised. Warsaw, 1943 By Czeslaw Milosz from "Selected Poems", 1973 Translated by Czeslaw Milosz © Czeslaw Milosz |
“If you get to thinking you are a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around."
Will Rogers |
My Heaven
Nothing shatters nothing breaks Nothing hurts nothing aches We've got ourselves one hell of a place .. in my heaven Looking down at the world below A bunch of whinning, fighting schmo's Up here we've got non of those .. in my heaven There's pools and lakes and hills and mountains Music, art and lighted fountains Who needs money here, no one's counting .. in my heaven No one works, we all just play We pick the weather everyday If you change your mind, well that's ok .. in my heaven Grandma's up here, grandpa too In a condo with to die for view There's presidents and movie stars You just come as you are No one's lost and no one's missing No more fighting just hugs and kissing And all these stars are just wishing .. in my heaven There's little white lights everywhere Your childhood dog in dad's old chair And more memories than your heart can hold When Sting's singing "Fields of Gold" There's neighbours, thieves and long lost lovers Villains, poets, Kings and mothers Up here we forgive eachother .. in my heaven For every soul that's down there waiting, Holding on still hesitating We say a prayer of levitating .. in my heaven You can look back on your life's lot But it can't matter what your not By the time your here we are all you've got In my heaven |
There are no facts, only interpretations.
~Friedrich Nietzsche |
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.
~John Burroughs |
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Spike Lee
~ Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing ... then it will be done, but not until then. ~ |
What are you, a travel agent? 'Cuz you're trying to send me on a guilt trip!
~Homer Simpson |
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.(f)
Alan Alda American, Actor Quotes |
As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. (f)
~ Carol Tavris |
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say...
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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. - Sam Keen |
The Summer Day
Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? |
"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low." - Henry Ward Beecher |
"Love is a gift, not an obligation, follow your heart and always trust the person you love." - Anonymous |
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” - Voltaire |
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. --Marcel Proust
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Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.-Howard Thurman
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